clipped

How To Use clipped In A Sentence

• Yovich was next to go, bowled for four by a beauty that clipped the top of off stump as it swung away from him.
• Doctors and nurses worked rapidly around her speaking in clipped phrases and abbreviations.
• His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge — equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts. John Caldigate
• Carefully she clipped the grass the grave and arranged the pinky - white, small chrysanthemums the tin cross.
• Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
• The woman's hair flowed behind down to her waist where barrettes were clipped onto her coffee brown hair.
• Although box and yews can be clipped into formal shapes, most shade plants appear at home in that naturalistic setting.
• A commercial Christmas tree starts out like any other conifer, but the tips of both its leader and lateral branches are clipped off.
• Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
• You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg