Sentence examples for is sliced off from inspiring English sources
As the cap comes down it is the housing benefit that is sliced off first.
First a strip of scalp is sliced off the lower back of the head.
A big penthouse terrace is cut out of the west facade; the top of the east facade is sliced off at an angle.
The play climaxed in a trashing of the set, and featured a tricky enactment of the custom of sabrage, in which the neck of a champagne bottle is sliced off with a sabre.
While it's not hard to draw a connection between Lebanese immigrants to Mexico and al pastor tacos, whose meat is sliced off a shawarma-style spit, Mr. Arellano suggested that the captivatingly multicultural idea that fish tacos could be traced back to Japan amounted to "a convenient story".
The journey of a banana from Ecuador to Brooklyn is a precisely timed affair, from the moment it is sliced off a stalk and then packed onto a ship for a seven-day refrigerated cruise to the Red Hook Container Terminal.
And unless you happen to own a bandsaw, so is slicing off the chine bone, part of the backbone that's attached to the ribs.
The Persian king Kay Khusraw may have the benign face of an overgrown baby, but he is slicing off an enemy's arm with his sword.
The government is not finding new money to hand to cities, but is slicing off chunks of Whitehall departments (like transport), and allowing decisions on how the money is spent to be taken locally rather than in London.
