2. The coach told his players that if they missed too many games, they would be cut from the team.

3. He has to be very careful not to cut himself while shaving.

4. Pamela had to cut short her conversation because someone was waiting to use the phone.

(cut short = you stop doing something before you are really ready to stop. This is an idiom.)

5. Cut the cantalope in half, and then cut it up into smaller pieces.

(cut it up / cut them up = make small pieces by cutting.)

6. When the pillow fight got too noisy, Susan's father told them to cut it out.

"Cut it out! You're making too much noise!"

(cut it out = as an idiom, this means to stop doing something--usually used when angry or irritated)

7. Taking the train every morning to work cuts my commuting time by about 15 minutes compared to driving.

8. She's getting her hair dyed and cut.

Where do you get your hair cut?

(because someone usually does the work for you, "cut" is often in the passive voice with get or the causative form: I had my hair cut yesterday.)