Sentence examples for flames cut off from inspiring English sources

But the flames cut off the only open door and filled the club with smoke.

ATHENS, Aug. 25 — Greece declared a national state of emergency on Saturday as scores of forest fires that have killed at least 46 people continued to burn out of control, leaving some villages trapped within walls of flames, cut off from firefighters and, in some cases, from firefighting aircraft grounded because of high winds.

By now, flames had cut off the stairwell I had walked up, making it impassable.

When two airplanes struck the towers of the World Trade Center 15 minutes apart on Sept. 11, there was virtually no hope for hundreds of people on the 30 or so floors immediately consumed by flames or cut off from escape routes.

The flames have cut off access to the base: Emergency workers can't get within 800 meters and moving any closer would put them at risk should the ammo at the base blow up.

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Hands are cut off.

Their arms cut off.

Cut off the telephone.

Their head cut off.

You get cut off.