Examples of use of cut-lines
1. Firefighters on Wednesday continued to cut lines around the remaining fires and kept a close eye on the weather.
2. Julian Fellowes, whose directorial debut Separate Lies featured at The Times bfi London Film Festival, said that many American actors simply cut lines they do not like.
3. It was burning ponderosa pine trees on fairly flat terrain, allowing firefighters to use bulldozers to cut lines around the blaze.
4. Near the central coast, firefighters continued to cut lines Wednesday to corral a 10,400–acre blaze in the Los Padres National Forest that was 37 percent contained, said fire information officer Tony Guzman.
5. Farther north, nearly 750 firefighters worked to cut lines around a 12,000–acre – or nearly 1'–square–mile – blaze on ranch land east of San Ardo in southeastern Monterey County.