cut-offs

How to use cut-offs in a sentence

• In our day, if you travel by river from the southernmost of these three cut-offs to the northernmost, you go only seventy miles.

  Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

• Distances have been shortened by "cut-offs," but the Mississippi displays a decided unwillingness to have its length curtailed.

  Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field | Thomas W. Knox

• The Cambodia, or Mekhong River, flows through it with many bayous or cut-offs.

  Four Young Explorers | Oliver Optic

• The first investigating party under Adairs direction had traversed all the southern cut offs.

  Ralph, the Train Dispatcher | Allen Chapman

• The channel in the lower valley may be improved at certain points by straightening it and judiciously making cut-offs.

  The Passaic Flood of 1903 | Marshall Ora Leighton