Sentence examples for cut too close from inspiring English sources

To avoid accidentally cutting your dog's skin, don't cut too close to the skin itself and instead leave a quarter inch of stubble.[11].[11]

When cutting shapes on the folded edge, do not cut too close to the top.

Do terrorist novels cut too close to the psyche?

Speaking in French, she pours out criticism of journalists who cut too close to the bone.

For some, the connotations of roundups and the prospect of mass detentions cut too close to the bone.

The ad may have been intended as tongue-in-cheek, but it has cut too close to the bone.

It cuts too close to the bone".

If it cuts too close to the bone, there is a risk that Mr. Corzine himself will feel the full brunt of protest from voters come election time.

John Adams's opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" is an honest attempt to deal thoughtfully and provocatively, in a time-honored artistic tradition, with a crisis episode; but that cuts too close to the bone.

We're awash with pink this Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) month and gratefully so, as this means we're invigorated about a cause that cuts too close to home, has taken too many lives and needs to be halted with a cure before it claims too many more.

Think carefully about how you present your job experience to anyone – nobody enjoys hearing someone complain about how awful or bad their previous job was because it often cuts too close to people's own experiences and also sounds like whining and inability to make the most of a bad situation.