Sentence examples for a cutting or two from inspiring English sources

All roses can be propagated from hardwood cuttings, so why not experiment with ones in your garden, or scope out friends' and neighbours' finest specimens and beg a cutting or two.

A gardener who brings back a cutting or two of a particularly nice variety of stone fruit from Spain or France to graft to a backyard tree would have no way of knowing whether the cuttings are infected.

(Tedious observation gives birth to dizzying theory, which gives birth, usually, to further observation, but once in a while -- in the certainty that the theory is sound, revolutionary and worthy of honors -- to cutting a corner or two).

"It is not easy to change anything, but now I think it is a matter of lyrical and musical changes — and perhaps cutting a scene or two from the second act".

But zinc fingers, because of their precision, could give Dow a significant leg up by cutting a year or two off the six to eight years it now takes to develop a modified plant and get it past regulators.

Some advocate cutting one or two layers.

And cutting one or two pieces near the end would tighten the effort.

Before I arrived, I had imagined that I would be strolling around, admiring work by the country's leading designers, taking in a cutting-edge exhibition or two; and perhaps following design trails from style emporium to crafts shop.

Cranberry plants are not grown from seeds, but from one year old cuttings or three year old seedlings.

If you take a cutting, choose one with a lot of roots on it.

Helpful guests would insist on cutting me a bite or two before I could intervene.