How to Use on the cutting-room floor in a Sentence

on the cutting-room floor

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  • Funnily enough, there was a lot on the cutting-room floor.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022
  • There’s some crazy electronic songs that got left on the cutting-room floor.
    — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Is there more Manny on the cutting-room floor somewhere?
    — Vulture, 28 May 2022
  • Kim Kardashian’s archival dress is on the cutting-room floor.
    — Blonde Trailer: Fade, Vulture, 28 July 2022
  • That’s why the Justice in Policing Act’s racial-profiling provisions would be best left on the cutting-room floor.
    — James R. Copland, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • If expansion does continue, these programs may be the biggest names left on the cutting-room floor.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • Close observers might note that the proposals are similar to, although less ambitious than, those that were left on the cutting-room floor when the Inflation Reduction Act passed.
    — Time, 11 July 2023
  • During the process of creating original characters for the visual novel, numerous ideas ended up on the cutting-room floor.
    — Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • In the past, any political differences among the cast could be edited out; major discussions about gender, race, class, or sexuality could be left on the cutting-room floor.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The new edition, released Friday on vinyl, CD and digitally, includes a remaster of the original album as well as a bevy of additional tracks left on the cutting-room floor, most of them never before released.
    — Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • This could leave many potential cures for various cancers on the cutting-room floor and leave young cancer scientists unable to get the financial backing theyneed to pursue innovative ideas.
    — Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2021

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