How to Use saw in a Sentence

saw

1 of 2 noun

• Score a line across the top of the slab with your saw, knife, or ice pick.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• The typical way to raise one wheel is to use a saw and make the axle slot in the body deeper.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• Volunteers fired up chain saws to cut a path through the home to get him out.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• As the old saw goes, a bad day on the water is better than a good day at work.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
• But a key element was Campbell’s DNA, found in the horn and on the still-bloody saw.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• The first test is the stock saw, where competitors cut through a log of wood with a chainsaw.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• Fire personnel used a saw to find out the extent of the damage.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
• William also used a saw to cut some logs for a tree den — and Kate even popped inside for a look!
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• The log sits still as the operator pushes the saw along.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• Hudson and Brandon each take an end of a crosscut saw and get to work felling a tree.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 13 Aug. 2023
• The suspect was then forced to leave their saw in the tree, where it was eventually found by the hunter who owned the stand.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
• The old saw goes that of whom much is given much is expected.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Workers wielding power saws cut blocks of stone ten feet deep from the sheer face of the mountain.
  — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• They can be cut with tin snips or a tile saw and installed by removing the backing and sticking the tile to the wall.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024
• With the cuts complete, use a very sharp, wide chisel to shave off the fingers created by the saw cuts.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Vitaliy did not need to use a saw because the body’s joints were no longer tight — the bone came out easily.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• The film never reclaims the droll touch at the start, which reveals that Ruthie uses the saw to cut a log lodged under the tires of the Uber that brought them there.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Running it dry will damage the chain and possibly other parts of the saw.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Another rally between the two saw Medvedev hit the ball long down the line and gave the championship point to Djokovic.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
• To that end, there's a slot on the hacksaw frame to add a reciprocating saw blade.
  — Brittany Vincent, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2023
• The blade of a huge circular saw that was abandoned by a tree poacher in the forest was turned into a gong.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• This piece is either detachable or fixed to the saw itself.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• In the Hottentots Holland mountain range this month, the revs of their chain saws echoed down the escarpment.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The saw comes with a tubular rolling stand for easy portability.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
• For more great lawn care equipment, check out our picks for the best pole saws, electric chainsaws, and wood splitters.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• The few gas stations that were open saw lines stretching for several blocks long.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Advertisement Sydney, dressed in a pink striped shirt, her hair in twists, looked at the workers with chains and saws in hand.
  — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• While the saws screeched, men would mix cement in five-gallon buckets to be poured into the neatly squared divots in the road.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• Video of the incident shows the man entering the store mere seconds before a large saw blade rolls quickly in his direction from across the parking lot.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024

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saw

2 of 2 verb

• He sawed the boards in half.
• This blade is too dull for sawing.
• The flag was sawed off and a small hole was drilled in the soldier’s knee.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• The handles of Bertuzzi’s True sticks are sawed off and bare at the end.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• The top edge of this cleat is sawed at an angle to match the sides, and the lid hinges are screwed to it.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• The tree’s branches are sawed off and the trunk is dragged away by a bulldozer.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The shell is stiff and leathery, requiring a bit of sawing to open.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Just don’t blame me when your kids start trying to saw the furniture in half at home.
  — Laura Parker, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Jonathan Grant used to keep the barracks awake with the tremendous sound of sawing lumber.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• Antonio didn’t like it and wished his doctor would saw the cast off.
  — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• The game see-sawed most of the fourth quarter before a Ding 3-pointer put Pinewood in control.
  — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
• Foundry workers sawed the head of a Robert E. Lee statue in half before melting it down.
  — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• An unknown person or persons sawed off a scabbard and drilled a hole into the leg of one of the horses.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• One apartment frequently catches fire, but the stairs on the fire escape were sawed off and sold as scrap long ago.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Princip’s likeness had to be sawed into pieces and smuggled out of Europe, losing its nose in the fray.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Longtime residents gazed at the workers sawing the arms of the tree and expressed sorrow.
  — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The day after Beethoven died in 1827, a doctor sawed through his skull during an autopsy.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Workers had to saw Axelrod’s house in half to prevent it from falling into the sea.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The tools are sturdy and sharp: there are two blades sharp enough for sawing, a pocketknife perfect for whittling, and two sharp scissors.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the famous infomercial, Mr. Swift saws an aluminum boat in half and puts it back together with Flex Tape.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 31 May 2023
• The team sawed out a 25-centimeter-thick portion of the guano and refilled the ring with rocks to avoid disturbing the nest’s current occupants.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 2 May 2023
• One of them had been sawed off, police said previously.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
• And their Land Cruiser doesn’t have to jockey for position just to get a decent view of the leopard, or to listen to its long, sawing roar.
  — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
• But then a failing pine tree was cut down on his property and sawed into three parts that are each long enough to be transformed into a bench.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 28 June 2023
• The video also reportedly shows one of the young men apparently being forced to saw off his friend's head with a knife, per CBS.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• The writer Lauren Groff, who moved to the state 18 years ago, recalled another Florida meme, in which someone saws the dangling state off the map.
  — Patricia Mazzei Jason Andrew, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Keeping It Up The absolute best way to keep your saw blades sharp and running well is to touch them up after every sawing session.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• At the end of the interview, the Russian sympathizer, who was in his 70s, cheerful and full of life, plodded into his garden and started sawing down a bunch of grapes.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• With a gentle sawing motion, cut along each membrane to release grapefruit sections into a small bowl.
  — Dana Bowen / Photography By Landon Speers For The Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• My tests included slicing into a ripe tomato, not sawing.
  — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023

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