How to Use cutup in a Sentence

cutup

1 of 2 noun
  • In school he was always a cutup, telling jokes and acting silly.
  • Yet as a child he was considered more clever than cutup.
    — Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And most of the plays from the second cutup were from the second half.
    — Erin Sorensen, ajc, 13 Sep. 2017
  • There are video cutups of him training in the sand, going through his steps.
    — Rainer Sabin | [email protected], al, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Once the cutup in all those pictures, Sandi now kept her arms pinned to her sides.
    — cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • McDaniel had a video cutup made of other poor attempts at doing the dance and showed it to the team.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Gillespie, a notorious cutup, stuck his tongue out just as the camera’s shutter came down.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • The sound bytes were so entertaining that McCartney made a cutup of all of them.
    — cleveland, 10 Jan. 2021
  • According to Granofsky, the Ravens have a fan cutup of him for current games.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Coach Mike McDaniel had a video cutup made of other poor attempts at doing the dance and showed it to the team.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Place the first three cutup potatoes in a layer in a big bowl, then layer about a third of the onions, peppers and Chinese celery on top.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
  • There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One shoe, made from a cutup Audubon magazine, features fragmented images of flamingos.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • You and Ricci, the two biggest cutups in San Antonio radio.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Rachel Sennott, who played the hurricane at the center of Shiva Baby and co-wrote this new movie, is the brash, horny cutup.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Civilian Adele is a cutup, relentlessly self-effacing, and always taking the piss out of herself.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Lochte is as spontaneous as Phelps is serious, coming across as the cutup to Phelps’s cutthroat competitor.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
  • His tape speaks for itself, big brother’s cutups of as dominating an interior offensive lineman as college football’s seen in years.
    — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
  • After accepting the job on the Plains, Freeze only had the opportunity to review cutups of each quarterbacks’ film, the good and the bad.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The scouts are getting an in-person look at the opposing players and game plan, and are on the lookout for anything the all-22 cutups can’t pick up, because the pieces of film are clipped closer to the snap itself.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • When Hall and his family came to Auburn for his official visit, Garner prepared a cutup of Hall’s play from that game and sat him down in his office to watch it.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Many coaches and players start with a series of film cutups that show leaguewide explosive plays (pass plays of 20-plus yards; run plays of 10- or 12-plus yards) and then their next opponent’s.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Shanahan tasked McVay with binding playbooks, making copies, scribbling out play sheets and organizing cutups of opposing defenses.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The movie works hard to be a soulfully offbeat kiddie entertainment, an antidote to the gimcrack cynicism that has ruled too many cartoon-cutup-in-the-land-of-live-action Hollywood products.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Because astronauts would likely not be hauling vermiculite from Earth but might have cardboard boxes, Guinan also tried mixing cutup cardboard into the Martian soil.
    — Author: Kenneth Chang, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Such systems also house analytics programming, sections where mock drafts are monitored to gauge external chatter about players, video libraries of film cutups, charts with testing results and more advanced metrics such as play speed.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • All eight club tracks follow the same basic template, one cribbed from Midwestern producers like Boo Williams and Paul Johnson, as well as early, ravey Daft Punk and, in particular, the take-no-prisoners cutups of Germany’s Soundhack.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026

cut up

2 of 2 verb
  • And so they were cut up into pieces.
    — Michael Soncin, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • Divers will help to cut up some of the debris.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Just cut up some pears, brie, and manchego, and stock up on two jars.
    — Christa Guerra, Bon Appétit, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Make a small cut up to the rind to set the wedge on the rim of the glass.
    — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Is there a right and wrong way to cut up the cabbage for the slaw?
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • Left on the kitchen counter were cut up limes and rhubarb custard pie.
    — Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • Now make two cuts across and about five cuts up and down to create large chunks.
    — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Then, they were cut up and neatly placed in their own icebox.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
  • People in yards cut up tree trunks and piled tree branches.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Hilliard found some space to cut up field on a handoff shown below.
    — cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Instead of dwelling in doubt, cut up paper and throw it around.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Stir the eggs in the bowl to cut up the curds a bit, then return them to the pan.
    — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Stir the eggs in the bowl to cut up the curds a bit, then return them to the pan.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 27 July 2020
  • Both the hat and shoes had been cut up, police said, and the shoes had blood on them.
    — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
  • So, to cut down on conflict, maybe just crank up the bass and cut up the dance floor.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Democrats were afraid their districts would be cut up into a lot of pieces.
    — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • This style takes boyfriend cut up a notch with a more dramatic width and length.
    — Tyler Joe, Marie Claire, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Both the hat and shoes had been cut up, the police said, and the shoes had blood on them.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022
  • She was violently thrown to the ground and her legs got cut up.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Hanlen cut up the video and showed LaVine the source of the problem.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Nobody wants to get their hands cut up by a downward moving blade.
    — Vilius Kavaliauskas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The large surface makes cutting up fruits, veggies and meat easy.
    — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Once on the ice, it was cut up into manageable pieces and hauled back to town.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
  • The vegetable can play the same role in outdoor cooking, but needs to be cut up first.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
  • It’s mostly cut up pieces of cardboard, with a few bags of plastic odds and ends mixed in.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 11 July 2018
  • The saw was great for trimming around camp and even cutting up the medium size logs around the fire.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 13 June 2018
  • Sampson cut up the sideline then turned back to the middle of the field which was wide open for him.
    — Jason Russell, NOLA.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Such a potato is cut up into sections, each having a sprout or two.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 1 June 2026
  • Such a potato is cut up into sections, each having a sprout or two.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Crews from the city came out and used chainsaws to cut up the tree segments that were blocking the road.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 29 May 2021

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