cut off from

idiom

: to cause (someone or something) to be separate or alone from (someone or something)

an island nation geographically cut off from the rest of the world

She cut herself off from her family.

Examples of cut off from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The dam’s destruction may mean another summer cut off from the sea, a bitter blow in a city already suffering from periodic Russian missile strikes and the loss of its port, with all but a few grain ships kept from setting sail by a Russian blockade. —Marc Santora, New York Times, 21 June 2023

For entertainment use, however, Apple appears to have made inroads in another issue that has held back VR technology: feeling isolated and vulnerable because you’re cut off from the world. —Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 5 June 2023

In another example, as a mass of cells grows in a fetus, those in the interior might get cut off from the oxygen-ferrying blood pulsing down capillaries, triggering them to produce and release chemicals that induce some of their neighbors to develop into blood-vessel-forming cells. —Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023

Others, traumatized by violence, saw the barriers as a price worth paying for their safety. Businesses, cut off from customers, were forced to close, and many people lost their jobs. —Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023