Example sentences for: cut-throat

How can you use “cut-throat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the creeks and lakes, you’ll find an abundance of trout — rainbow, brook, brown, cut-throat, and red-spotted Dolly Varden — as well as whitefish, char, and bass.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...


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