In a crowded street you're likely to cut off someone's arm by mistake.
The screams stopped, as if cut off by a switch.
In the action, these companies were surrounded and cut off by a larger Japanese force.
Why, after all, should he cut off the hope of them by his own act?
Melanie had forever cut off that line of action by her first words.
"Not if he was to have cut off his nose by mistake."
Ahead and to the left, that was it, cut off from view by a low rounding of land.
The combadge was dead, cut off by the security system.
Then the light vanished as though cut off by the closing of a door.
The wind died down, cut off by the masses surrounding her.