Sentence examples for to saw through from inspiring English sources

"When the cops come, they have to saw through these steel tubes.

Do not attempt to saw through wet wood, and be especially careful when cutting wood that is warped or knotty.

"I watched as he began literally to saw through [the victim's] neck six or seven times," she said.

The strongest performance belongs to Ralph Fiennes as Pip's secret benefactor, Magwitch, an escaped prisoner the young Pip meets in a graveyard and takes pity on, bringing him food, whiskey and an iron file to saw through his chains.

Just a few novels ago, McEwan was offering useful tips on how best to saw through a human thigh bone (remove the trousers first), and his last novel, "Amsterdam," which won the 1998 Booker Prize, ended with a mutual euthanasia pact.

It is described with a directness that might make some readers queasy: "He has long ago run out of blank skin on his forearms, and he now recuts over old cuts, using the edge of the razor to saw through the tough, webby scar tissue: when the new cuts heal, they do so in warty furrows, and he is disgusted and dismayed and fascinated all at once by how severely he has deformed himself".

Knowing exactly how a safe is constructed is especially useful if you resort to sawing through (see warnings).

1985 Rumoured to have sawed through prison bars to escape a US jail before leaving for Libya.

As soon as the pelvic area is cut through you can saw from the back, but some prefer to keep sawing through the back since the vertebrae is much easier to see in the front than the back, especially if the animal has a lot of back fat.

It is more safe to lead the saw through the narrow slit of a "Workmate" tool when sawing the sheet.

Another used a small saw to cut through the plastic pipes.