How to Use recut in a Sentence

recut

verb
  • Soderbergh offered to clear his schedule and recut the movie with him.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There are asynchronies and asymmetries, and the team tries to recut the show to fit.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Place cut branches in a container of warm water and recut one inch from the base of the stem.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Even a high-profile stone can be slightly recut for a new identity.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2023
  • With a fiasco looming, Dutch experts were brought over to recut it.
    — Henrik Bering, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Change the water every day or two and, if practical, recut the stems every couple of days.
    — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
  • Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Mowers can mulch clippings (repeatedly cut and recut them), discharge them to the side or rear, or bag them.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
  • Mowers can mulch clippings (repeatedly cut and recut them), discharge them to the side or rear, or bag them.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
  • Plummer parachuted in a few weeks ago to shoot his nine days of work, and Scott has toiled around the clock to recut and remake his own movie.
    — Jake Coyle, kansascity, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The jewels have not been recovered, and authorities believe they were recut and sold.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The thieves would say their client wants a different shape and to recut the diamond to the client’s specifications.
    — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2017
  • Divided into 17 pieces, the largest had to be recut due to a flaw and the biggest totaled just 54 carats.
    — Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In fact, Faraway Downs is actually that very film, now recut into a six-episode series.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
  • When the global superstar announced her plan to recut her early albums, the decision was moored in business.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Cardi and Megan recut their song so that all the lyrics are printable in The Washington Post.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • These heavy themes were largely omitted from a bowdlerized and recut American edit of the film that came out two years later.
    — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • Yuknavitch and El Akkad and Winters unspool the reels of those dreams, and recut them as nightmares.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • The barrel tenon is cut oversized for a perfect receiver fit, then the receiver is deburred, squared, and the barrel hole is recut straight.
    — Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Marinello said the thieves will likely break up the pieces, melt down any valuable metal and recut valuable gemstones, thus hiding evidence of the crime.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Several years ago, some folks subdivided the area and recut the dirt road to create access to all the other properties.
    — Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The Honda leaves a velvet finish, thanks to a unique dual blade and a domed plastic deck that keeps the clippings suspended as they are cut and recut.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The report said a second team of editors was hired to recut her work and that reshoots were ordered to match the show’s Season 1 aesthetic.
    — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • Seckinger received word from Laffitte and then directed Parker Law Group staff to recut the checks.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Don't just recut and repurpose creative assets made for TikTok to use on YouTube.
    — Ira Belsky, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Variety overheard that dirtied patches of the carpet had to be swiftly recut and replaced behind the scenes so nary a nominee would notice the spots.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And just last year, the television adaptation of Heathers was pushed back, recut, and nearly cancelled in light of the Parkland shooting.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The idea was to recut the 90-minute shows of the NBC sketch show into 30-minute episodes for syndication.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 June 2024
  • To the dismay of collectors and purists, Graff recut the stone to improve its brilliance and minimize imperfections.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2022
  • There are the pencil skirts of Grupski’s literal dreams, along with racks of vintage army bombers the designer has recut and cropped for a day-to-midnight silhouette.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Apr. 2023

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