How to Use cutting room in a Sentence

cutting room

noun
  • At the tail end of last year, both were left on the cutting room floor.
    — Kelsey Butler, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • What are the costs of leaving all the rest on the cutting room floor?
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 20 July 2022
  • What’s the best story from the book that got left on the cutting room floor?
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • And what get left on the cutting room floor are all the true curiosities.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2021
  • And then your best moments don't even make the show, ending up on the cutting room floor.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And Leguizamo is doing his part so that these stories aren't left on the cutting room floor.
    — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Prince turns and fires at a fleeing man before walking out of the granite-cutting room.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • There are a lot of creatures that are on the [cutting room] floor, a lot of joke runs, a lot of serious stuff.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • Other priorities are likely to fall on the cutting room floor as the clock ticks down.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Most of that by necessity has been left on the digital cutting room floor.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Luckily, Aranda was able to share a few gems that ended up on the cutting room floor.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But many of their earliest songs from the late '60s were left on the cutting room floor – until now.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Every movie has their almost-was moments — a piece of casting that changed, a scene that was left on the cutting room floor.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 June 2021
  • KiKi Layne is sharing her thoughts about ending up on the cutting room floor.
    — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Even with hours of footage left on the cutting room floor, there is still so much to unpack from Smith’s interview.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2020
  • But fans of the Rocky saga might be forgiven for wondering, what got left on the cutting room floor?
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Some songs Zimmer wrote for the film that were sung by Josh Brolin were left on the cutting room floor.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • My ideas fell with a thud on the cutting room floor, no cushion of mutual experience to buoy them.
    — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2020
  • Both her parents worked in the industry — her father in the cutting room and her mother in the costume shop.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Of course, not all of it — or, come to think of it, none of it — was suitable for primetime material and is on the cutting room floor.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Naturally, a lot of good material hit the cutting room floor.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Middletown's Hollywoodland project is likely to end up on the cutting room floor.
    — Wayne Baker, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2022
  • While a lot of sequences were planned in pre-production, other sequences were born on the cutting room floor as a way of progressing the drama.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • Here's a rundown of key proposals that passed before the clock hit midnight, as well as a couple of plans lawmakers left on the cutting room floor.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2021
  • And the show now likely features more of my snarky, harsh commentary that got left on the cutting room floor, painting a much more brutal picture of me and my game.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The state-of-the-art midcentury modern building had a big, airy storefront, two smokers, a huge meat-cutting room and office space.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Each of those teams would enjoy other quality rivalries, and the games left on the cutting room floor would occur in alternate years.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
  • That part of the interview ended up on the cutting room floor, but the two poetry-loving film fans kept the discussion going over email.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Will Arnett, as the gleefully wisecracking host, spends much of that time goofing around with the teams, most of which will end up on the cutting room floor.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 19 Sep. 2022
  • After Disney acquired Fox and Blue Sky, the film and its home studio were left on the cutting room floor.
    — Sasha Urban, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022

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