cutting - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • mechanize: A limited amount of hand-cutting still occurs and the two largest bogs in the LCA have been threatened by mechanized cutting in the past.
  • root: Propagation: Root basal cuttings with bottom heat in early spring.
  • insert: Insert several cuttings into pots of Seed & Cutting compost.

Converse of subject

  • propagate: It can be propagated by cuttings, plant division or seed.

Adjective modifier

  • semi-ripe: Root basal or softwood cuttings in spring or early summer or semi-ripe cuttings in late summer with bottom heat.
  • rooted: Most of my time was spent potting all the rooted aspen cuttings.
  • basal: Propagation: Root basal cuttings with bottom heat in early spring.
  • rotational: This rotational cutting had the effect of letting light into the wood.
  • genital: The women were then examined by a doctor to determine the presence of genital cutting.
  • disused: The site is a steep sided disused railroad cutting consisting of limestone grassland with scrub.

Modifies a noun

  • edge: The hit is made normally with the edge of the weapon, any surface, not just the traditional cutting edge.

Noun used with modifier

  • softwood: Propagation Root hardwood cuttings in autumn or softwood cuttings in summer.
  • peat: Marginal peat cutting has extended around most of the bog.
  • grass: Grass cutting Use the online form to report problems with grass cutting in your area.
  • hardwood: Propagation Root hardwood cuttings in autumn or softwood cuttings in summer.
  • press: Press cuttings Coward faked ME to evade war in The Pink Paper, 13th.
  • greenwood: Propagation: Take hardwood cuttings in winter or greenwood cuttings in early summer.

Preposition: of

  • ribbon: The event will begin at 5.30pm and the cutting of the ribbon will take place at 6.25pm.
  • perennial: January: root cuttings of some herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees protected under glass.
  • cake: Speeches were followed by the cutting of a huge cake baked by the local Eye baker, which fed almost all the people attending.

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