Sentence examples for cut off close from inspiring English sources

Outer leaves are cut off close to the stalk as they reach their full length.

The stalk, with its surrounding petioles, is cut off close to the ground, usually at the time of blossoming.

In harvesting bast fibres, the plant stalks are cut off close to the base or pulled up.

The United States and other Western countries cut off close to $1 billion in direct aid to the Palestinian government after Hamas won last year's parliamentary elections.

To ensure that the wire is held firmly in the acrylic the end of the wire is turned down at a right angle and then cut off close to this bend (Fig. 11).

Antennae and maxillary palps were cut off close to the base and were transferred to Eppendorf cups chilled over liquid nitrogen.

In their outstanding book, Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute refers to self-deception as "being in the box," explaining, "when we're self-deceived …" we are, "deeply resistant to any suggestion that the truth is otherwise … we are cut off, closed up, blind". This is tied to blame-shifting and irresponsibility.

Cut off corners close to stitching, turn to the right side and press.

Cut off the sealed end (as close to the seal as possible), and find the long edge of the folded bag that is folded several times over.

In a sense, we lost father and mother, because we became cut off from close contact with our mother.

The events in London, Glasgow and Belfast passed peacefully, although some disabled activists staged a sit-in and cut off traffic close to Hyde Park in London.