Sentence examples for called cutting from inspiring English sources

You can also do a trick called cutting a transition joint, which is a 1/4 or 3/8" notch cut 24-36" (depending on the width of the panel and length of the canoe) into the bottom front edge of the top panels.

In the local jargon, it is called "cutting the grass".

Tracking is called cutting sign: "cutting" is looking and "sign" is evidence.

Later called "cutting contests," these intense challenges between dancers were an excellent breeding ground for new talent.

By playing the breaks repeatedly and switching from one record to the other, Kool Herc created what he called "cutting breaks".

Communities that practice it have in common that they are traditional societies where female sexuality is viewed mainly as a potential threat to family honor — in Kembata-Tembaro, the practice is called "cutting off the dirt".

"They used to have little contests, what we call cutting each other," he said.

But they add that it can get pretty competitive in the duels for musical dominance, with services often turning into what jazz musicians call cutting contests.

A study last month in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics highlighted these often graphic videos of adolescents engaging in what we as clinicians call "self-injury" and kids call "cutting" -- on camera.

By no stretch of the imagination could the iPad Mini be called cutting-edge stuff.

"My Catholic grandmother used to make something she called cutting-curry," he says.