Sentence examples for making a clean cut from inspiring English sources

Don't use scissors to cut freesias, since they pinch the stem instead of making a clean cut.

Divide the plants near the base, making a clean cut through the root system without damaging it too much.

Signs of this include having to apply a lot of pressure to cut the nail or the nail being "chewed" by the clippers rather than making a clean cut.

An effective and flexible computer program processes the flower image and sends the computed value to a driver that positions a simple mechanical cutting system to make a clean cut of the saffron flower.

I can't just make a clean cut — there's going to be an extended period when I need to notify everyone I know that it's over.

"We don't know what they are, but we know that they made a clean cut," sheriff Sandra Hutchens said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Re "With Lasers and Daring, Doctors Race to Save a Young Man's Brain" (Dec. 19): In describing its use for vascular surgery, Denise Grady states that an excimer laser is used to make the hole because it "makes a clean cut that stays open without burning nearby tissue".

In a later email he suggested CSIRO make a "clean cut" and eliminate 120 staff engaged in "public good/government-funded climate research".

Be careful to make a clean cut, preferably in one stroke.

After being so activated by the addition of a phosphate, Sae2 uses its endonuclease activity to make a clean cut near a double-strand break in DNA.

You don't get to build your brand on racist provocation only to make a clean cut as soon as people see it for what it is.