Sentence examples for are sliced off from inspiring English sources

The icosahedron itself has 20 triangular faces; when its vertices are sliced off, the triangles become hexagons.

Heads are sliced off with stunning regularity, innocents are harmed or killed without much hesitation and the camera lingers lovingly on each surge of blood.

The fins are sliced off and the sharks dumped back in the water; unable to swim, they sink to the bottom and die.

In the "harvesting" process at sea, sharks are pulled aboard and "finned," meaning their fins are sliced off with a hot metal blade.

Tails are sliced off so potential buyers can examine cut ends to judge the quality mark of fat, all suggesting piscatorial proctologists diligently at work.

Also alarming to some is the sheer brutality of shark-finning itself: After the fins are sliced off, the sharks are often thrown back into the ocean to die.

Tongues were sliced off, eyes poked out.

The other was sliced off in a fight.

As the cap comes down it is the housing benefit that is sliced off first.

The top half of an American elm had been sliced off by excessive winds.

Her clitoris was sliced off with nothing to dull the pain.