Some of the houses at auction Monday are as wide as 50 feet and would need to be cut into pieces to make it out of the neighborhood, adding to the cost the potential owner would have to pay to have the house reassembled in a new location.

WSJ: For Sale, Cheap: Homes in Fargo

The houses, which were purchased by the city and must be moved away from the flood-prone Red River of the North or a creek that flows into it, are so large they can't be hauled to higher ground without being cut into pieces.

WSJ: For Sale, Cheap: Homes in Fargo

Do you have to chew your food more thoroughly now or cut it into small pieces to eat?

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The poultry plant is one of several in the area where chickens are slaughtered and then quickly cut up into pieces and shipped to market.

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After the death of Keats, a close friend cut the manuscript into 13 pieces and distributed them to the poet's friends and admirers as mementoes.

BBC: Quiz of the week's news

The rake of the auditorium seating is just as generous, and the stained-plywood walls cut into loosely rearranged jigsaw pieces shade pleasantly from honey hues at the back to dark mahogany at the stage's edge, a playful spatial echo of the houselights dimming.

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