How to Use cut down in a Sentence

cut down

verb

• This can help cut down on food waste and grocery bills.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2024
• More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking, or tried to, but couldn’t?
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Looking for Christmas tree farms to cut down your own tree this year?
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022
• Jay's Tree Farm provides tools and supplies to cut down the trees.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2022
• Look for the Gamecocks to again cut down nets in March (and April).
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
• Neither the company nor government agencies would say how many trees have been cut down.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Wild plants grew along the riverbanks, including bamboo that kids would cut down and carve into knives, bows, and arrows.
  — Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• To get around this, researchers use matrices with useful symmetries that can cut down on the number of parameters.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• That wood typically comes from branches, which volunteers cut down from willow, cottonwood or aspen trees.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Almost anyone that’s played Dungeons & Dragons has a story about a beloved character cut down before their prime.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Teachers are already switching to in-class essay requirements and other approaches to cut down on student cheating.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Sep. 2024
• Mops with a larger head can cover more ground and help cut down on cleaning time but may not be able to navigate corners and smaller spaces as easily as a more compact mop head.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
• But one problem with relying on your vote to cut down your direct campaign mail is there is always a lag between when a ballot is cast and when a county’s voter list gets updated.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The label has also become a go-to for jeans created using renewable energy and air-drying techniques that cut down on CO2 emissions.
  — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• The vote should help cut down on the number of robocalls made.
  — TIME, 15 Dec. 2023
• Walz hopes his team can cut down on the turnovers and aims for about 10 or less a night.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2023
• Nacua cut down on junk food and worked on the field and in the weight room to make his body leaner.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• Or use an Instant Pot to cut down the process to just an hour or less.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 21 Nov. 2022
• With the semi-finals ahead of us, that means our Top 10 will be cut down to a Top 8.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• The sea wall project will begin in May, and Stumpy is among about 300 trees that will be cut down this year.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• They can be cut down among the foliage to keep the declining stems out of sight.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024
• There’s a lot of guys that had soreness today that had reps cut down.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The mulch in the Dilworth Community Garden came from the trees, brush and vines the group cut down.
  — Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• If there’s space left, pulling the side compression straps cuts down on size.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
• Next, he is seen taking what appeared to be a knife and cutting down the flag pole strings.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024
• Bringing their own food would have helped cut down on the midday lag and made more time for the mountain.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Others talked about trying to cut down on screen time for their kids.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
• Bess Friday Of course, Krebs isn’t the only person to cut down on screen time.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 16 May 2024
• To cut down on the fat, Miller recommends bone-in chicken thighs with the skin removed.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• This helps to cut down on some weight without cutting out any headspace.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024