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
Herbs, such as germander and santolina, can be clipped into low hedges to create a knot garden.
Couldn't you have clipped your hair back from your face, Sylvie?
She asked me to make a garden of dark green with lots of clipped yew trees and one which would recall Rome. The Education of a Gardener
The cold, clipped delivery and bizarre folksy expressions have also contributed to this.
But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
Honoring Spanish custom, stallions are never gelded, long manes and tails are never clipped on the stallions, and the mares' tails are clipped in a fashion that tells age and status.
He was wearing a yellow golf shirt, tucked into khaki chino shorts with a call phone clipped to his belt - the Republican uniform.
The sterile females also had rough eyes and clipped wings, two phenotypes associated with cell division defects.
After Rez was safely on-board, he jumped off and unclipped the four lines holding the Anna Maria in her slip, and tossed the ropes back on-board to Dominic.
To the front, a yew hedge is clipped into swags to mirror the ogee windows of the house, framing views of the Bringewood hills and Welsh Marches in the distance.
He was clipped by a following horse and lay prone on the track for 45 minutes before being taken to hospital. Times, Sunday Times
Then if If you need to carry a lead rope it can be attached as shown or clipped to the ring close to the saddle pommel. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
A good time to clip a holly hedge into shape is in the early spring (it can also be lightly clipped in late summer), just before the new season's growth emerges.
But neatly clipped hedges have their beauty too. Times, Sunday Times
It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging.
close-clipped lawns
She slid a plastic clipboard across the counter and clipped a pen to the side.
As the coach whizzed by, its back wheel clipped the edge of the curricle, tipping it nearly on its side.
he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony
He clipped the microphone to his collar.
He clipped the ropes to the new anchors, rapped and unstuck the ropes (they were in the water too) and prussiced back up to the anchors.
Puzzled anger at the sudden uproar crossed Henry's face, but his wife spoke first in clipped tones.
The nashi grow in tight clusters of 8-10 fruits, and each cluster needs to be carefully dismantled and the fruits clipped off one at a time, then carefully packed.
His blue Peugeot car had been overtaking a line of traffic when it turned a corner, clipped a kerb and went out of control
Within a few hours after hatching, lizards were individually measured and toe clipped.
Harnessed up and clipped on - and on flat water - the task was a different story to how it would have been in the glory days of square-rigged pirate ships, exposed on a rolling sea.
She put on her mascara, some lip gloss and clipped a butterfly clip in her hair.
I speak in short-clipped sentences and keep my head very still," Eisenberg said. VIDEO: Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg Finally Meet on Saturday Night Live
I managed to duck but in the course of so doing, clipped a telegraph pole. Times, Sunday Times
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I clipped the newspaper article along with the letter.
The ticket inspector came round, and as he clipped my ticket, he asked if the walkman had a radio.
I managed to duck but in the course of so doing, clipped a telegraph pole. Times, Sunday Times
Automatically, I raised my hand to make sure she hadn't clipped any sparkly thing to my hair.
Many vegetables and herbs are highly ornamental, and potagers have become an art form in themselves, with patterns of exotically coloured salad plants and brassicas being displayed within neatly clipped box hedges.
A beautifully clipped wobbly blob will always look better than something that has been forced unwillingly into a perfect geometric shape. Times, Sunday Times
Martin's mother-in-law had one of those professional telephone voices, all nasally tones and clipped sentences.
I've read it again somewhere recently, books of letters are nearing their end, the demise is almost upon us and e mails with their clipped language will surely be a poor substitute. 47 entries from February 2008
Butts's clipped ears twitched, his eyes narrowed and his flews curled into a snarl.
She told the inquest: 'He clipped the kerb and his front mirror hit the wall. The Sun
“Barn Goddess?” he asked as he clipped a crosstie to one side of Magnus™s halter in a wash stall while I did the other side. Ms Longshot
When he got to the middle of the road he was clipped by the car and flicked up into the air.
He had an abysmal latch and had to have his frenulum clipped but not before my nipples were savaged and bleeding. The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother
A woman suffered neck and back injuries after her car was clipped by a white Ford Escort van outside the Blundell Arms pub in Chorley Old Road, Bolton.
Schofield and Mother hit the western wall of the hall and unclipped clasps on their chains—causing the chains to unreel from the ceiling, lowering the two of them to the floor of the room right in front of the doorway leading back to the elevator shaft. Hell Island
clipped hedges
Depending on the structural nature of the objects such as convexity and disjointness, the resulting clipped object may itself be disjoint or may contain islands and other interesting properties. The Code Project Latest Articles
The clipped lines and metallic austerities of modern design couldn't resist the assaults of this charm offensive inspired by tchotchkes from Mexico, India, and the Southwest.
But deep down I would love to see kids mooching round on bikes in groups, scrumping apples and being clipped round the ear'ole by paternalistic cops.
She crossed lanes, clipped one oncoming car then hit another head-on. The Sun
The pianist's clipped articulation does suggest a fortepiano more than a modern concert grand, but interpretively, Kovacevich presents Beethoven as a nose-thumber out to turn things on their ears.
The Scottish midfielder also clipped the bar. The Sun
The Astra zoomed past again and as the mirror clipped the boxes we all winced. Times, Sunday Times
The guy had about three days ' stubble, a beer gut, and a mobile phone clipped to his belt. GOING OUT
I nabbed them using a hom ade trap, and got them spaid and ears clipped, but wen it came to it, I culd not release them n this dogful nehburhood. I find yur “string theoree” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
ON A rain-lashed November day two years ago, a pleasure barge sailing up the River Hull clipped a large object, hidden beneath the murky waters.
That header clipped the top of the crossbar. Times, Sunday Times
On his last outing he drove like a man possessed and clipped a tenth off the Brazilian's time to ensure an all-Ferrari barrier at the start of the race.
Of course... "The soft, watery pale blue eyes, the clipped sentences. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
But wait … here on my desk is this wonderful photograph with accompanying story I clipped from the New York Times just recently — January 16, 2009. John tagliabue | nieuwerkerk aan den ijssel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
‘And I don't expect you will,’ the manager said in a clipped tone.
The outer is then draped over and clipped to the base of inner.
Solid, structural plants, particularly clipped topiary shapes, have been used to mark the entrances to homes for centuries.
YOYO lip gloss mini, a 'retractable' lip gloss attached to a cord that extends two and a half feet and can be clipped onto clothing, was named winner of the color cosmetics category. CosmeticsDesign RSS
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
Two pals on a second quad were clipped but escaped unhurt in December last year. The Sun
The one liberally sprinkled in blaze orange post-its. the calendar with things like Gymbucks clipped to the right month, and a pen clipped to the whole thing for easy scribbling. My head + kapow
Solis, 40, was injured when he was unseated from his mount, Golden K K, who clipped heels and fell in the upper stretch of a claiming race.
I clipped playing cards to the spokes on his wheelchair once.
His waxy face stills glows an unearthly peach colour above his neatly clipped ginger beard. Times, Sunday Times
Lime grows quickly, is handsome looking, and can be readily clipped or pollarded.
Her outer appearance matches her nicely, as she speaks with precision, in tidy, neatly clipped sentences punctuated with elegant gestures, and her contributions to conversation always seem organized and intelligent. Still More BFF Blogger Goodness!
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
The gooseneck vents were covered and heavy deadlights were swung across the scuttles and clipped down along the entire ship's sides. LET NOT THE DEEP
Through judging the relation of the position between the circle clip window and the line to be clipped, a new line-clipping algorithm is given based on the correlative literatures.
His second serve clipped the net.
I buckled on the belt and clipped the knife to it, then hefted the sword gingerly.
The shelled serpentine walks were bordered with low, closely clipped cassina hedges; clusters of white and rose oleander, scarlet geraniums, roses of countless variety, beds of verbena of every hue, and patches of brilliant annuals, all looked up smilingly at him. Beulah
The Nigerian let the ball beat him before a little jink wrong-footed Robinson, and he clipped it into the net.
But she had a radiant smile—not so common among overserious Iranian politicians—and a Nokia mobile phone cord clipped beneath her chin, for constant calling. Let the Swords Encircle Me
Like the planter's grain or publisher's newspaper clippings, the overabundance of our media archives can now be clipped and gathered by a new generation of gleaners.
Somewhere in all my wanderings I've lost the original of this I clipped from a Sunday comics section. My tiger is now fast asleep...
What the play needs, but doesn't get in his staging, is British sangfroid and coolly clipped British-accented delivery unraveling in just the right places.
Many others had opted for the cheaper and easier to wear option: the fascinator, either on a hairband or clipped into the hair.
Jonnie Robinson, the British Library's curator of sociolinguistics, said these words are only pronounced as they are now because of the mania for not dropping the H. "Our middle class anxieties of the 19th century have inserted an H because you got clipped round the ear if you dropped one. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century
For nearly half an hour we clipped along at a good pace chatting and enjoying the fine scenery.
Dr Clipse unclipped the ring and took it off the boy.
The lyrical second theme brings forth a singing legato from the violin that contrasts wonderfully with its sharp and clipped phrasing in the first section.
a clipped poodle
As for hoopoe, I will quote The Century Dictionary, definition and all, with its abbreviations expanded: "The form hoopoe was doubtless originally pronounced like hoopoo, which, with hoophoop, first appears about 1667-78; an imitative variant or clipped reduplication of the earlier hoop, apparently after Latin upaupa …. OUPblog
It is more likely then that an officer will get seriously injured or killed and the tables will turn, alot of hand-wringing from the same ACPO ranks that clipped our wings in the first place, and a reinstatement of the equipment and possibly more besides. Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Jake was not part of the conversation and answered questions with short clipped answers.
I clipped one side of my hair back with two barrettes and put on some light make-up.
A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday. Star-Dust
The pasha was a small, spare, dark little man, with his black beard clipped as close as scissors could do it. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
First, the medium-term vulnerabilities and constraints to robust growth discussed last week (see "Ten Risks To Global Growth"); second, the risk of a double-dip, W-shaped recession, as the wings of a tentative recovery of growth in 2010 could be clipped toward the end of that year or in 2011 by a perfect storm of rising oil prices, rising taxes and rising nominal and real interest rates on the public debt of many advanced economies. Doomsayers--Or Realists?
Antoni unclipped the two-way from his belt, and pressed down the talk button, ‘Corey, you there’.
Stable rug (and blankets if horse fully clipped out. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
Though slow to get going, once established, hollies are low-maintenance plants that tolerate hard pruning if needed and can be clipped and trimmed to a specific shape.
Modi spoke to me in clipped, to-the-point phrases, with a didactic tone, about the cosmopolitan trading history of Gujarat going back 5,000 years, and how Parsis and others had come to its shores and been assimilated into the Hindu culture. India’s New Face
The thought of our two innocent, unknowing birds having their wings clipped and being put behind a high fence was disturbing.
Several other anglers also caught early Pouting using mostly lugworm and ragworm baits presented on three hook rigs clipped down to gain a little extra distance.
Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
A clipped yew hedge behind wrought-iron railings sets the period town house back from the street. Times, Sunday Times
A rose hedge can become a useful, impenetrable barrier if clipped regularly.
The entire film is told in a surreal and dreamily clipped dialog of imaginably fashionable faux-period slang and bizarre outcries of passion.
Solano clipped the ball past the isolated goalkeeper to score into an empty net.
There was nothing "combed" or "fixed" about Miss Asenath's Woods; no white-washed trees or clipped grass. The Heart of Arethusa
A clipped yew hedge behind wrought-iron railings sets the period town house back from the street. Times, Sunday Times
The shock of dark hair, a feature of his combative approach on the field, has been clipped but he looks trim enough to bowl. Times, Sunday Times
He's a bedroom wizard, finessing the ragged street sounds of garage and hip hop into sleek, clipped cyber-beats; employing everything from maracas to car alarms in his percussive quest.
He reached across and clipped the doctor's lifeline on to the frame and handed him the intercom phone. LET NOT THE DEEP
As early as 1932, before his arrival here, Gottfried Fraenkel clipped off the halteres of flies (the balancing organs behind the sole pair of wings) to see what would happen to their flight responses.
Planted with lemon trees in warmer months and clipped hollies for the rest of the year, they seem to glow an ultramarine colour even in overcast conditions, and look even more dramatic when lit at night.
He clipped his safety belt to a fitting on the deck.
He clipped the boy on the jaw.
By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Their nostrils, one should understand, must be tightly clipped to avoid accidental drowning and since they surface only briefly they must perforce gulp air.
He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine.
The single-engine Piper Cherokee had taken off from El Monte Airport, about two miles away, but it must have come down right away: it clipped the roof of a nearby house, cartwheeled into two parked cars and smashed into the freeway wall. Fallin’ Up
His boot heels scraped against the hardwood floor, eliciting a clipped echo from the plank boards.
The lines, broken off of the conventional blues verse, are clipped, colloquial, and cadenced.
The front garden, behind the privet, was clipped to within an inch of its life, with a single standard rose in the dead centre.
The front garden, behind the privet, was clipped to within an inch of its life, with a single standard rose in the dead centre.
The driver appeared to have lost control after his car clipped another vehicle at high speed in Sydney, Australia's biggest city.
The Chief Constable's clipped tones crackled over the telephone line.
Some years ago, Hendley's youngest son, Bart, clipped a newspaper article reminiscing about the game and sent it by mail to Koufax.
The guard clipped the tickets, smiled and waved them through quickly.
'They have ripped it full chisel, they are off licketty-split, they have slid, they have made tracks, they have mizzled -- they have absquatulated and clipped it; _abiit, evasit, crupit_! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The tubes clipped to his nostrils gave his raspy voice a nasal quality as if he suffered from a cold, and his mouth was dry.
A big problem faced by business, declared Browne in his clipped English tones, was the creation of ‘pseudo markets’ by governments.
As she went to climb over, she fell and clipped her feet on the wall and her whole body flipped and she landed on her head.
Then if If you need to carry a lead rope it can be attached as shown or clipped to the ring close to the saddle pommel. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
You might have encountered winter jasmine as a congested, freestanding little bun, clipped to within an inch of its life. Times, Sunday Times
Ri Ye-Gyong did immediately clipped the bar for North Korea, but the result was settled 14 minutes before the end when Rachel Buehler finished off a goalmouth scramble.
Discovered in the southeastern U.S. by university researchers, this beautiful fern has a unique ability to soak up arsenic from the ground into its fronds, which may be clipped and disposed of safely. Archive 2006-03-01
The test for the dissenters will be whether or not they have clipped his wings. Times, Sunday Times
The stylus is cleverly clipped into the right side so that it doesn't fall out easily.
Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned.
The bouncer smiled and unclipped the rope once again.
Kept clipped as a hedge, beech keeps its leaves year round - green in summer, turning to russet in autumn.
Two others on a SECOND quad bike clipped by the train ran off as their machine was shunted off the tracks and wrecked. The Sun
I unclipped my seat-belt in order to get the dog out as soon as possible.
I have a back room that I'm now living out of and the grounds are nicely mowed and clipped.
I asked him why he hadn't pointed this out when he clipped our tickets.
Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
Clipped yew, beech and hornbeam are lovely.
On election night, Sarah Palin served as Fox News Channel's personification of hope - its poetic muse and telegenic Wonder Woman (in no-costume Diana Prince mode), wearing a salmony red dress that looked, on camera, like an elegant, soft Slanket clipped at the collar with a microphone. Election coverage: Difficult to watch, impossible to look away
I call it cryptic rhyme because I write short, clipped, descriptive verses that paint vivid, concise pictures using almost no full sentences. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Verla Kay, Part 1
Most of the other schools were surrounded with fields of neatly clipped grass, but Lincoln's schoolyard was covered with stone, tiny black cinders that stung the flesh in a fall.
Inside were pages of paper with text clipped from newspapers and magazines.
He was directed towards a glider landing strip, but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland.
His car clipped the back of the lorry before spinning round and landing in the central reservation barrier.
From inside his shirt he pulled a short length of thicker cable that was probably hooked to a harness and clipped the karabiner on the end to the clasp. Blood Trinity
She had graying dark brown hair, and against the unspoken rules of rigid, authoritative women everywhere, she wore it not in a bun, but clipped away from her face with handsome tortoiseshell clips.
Officials said that the coach was thought to have clipped a kerb before hitting a lamppost and a tree and then overturning. Times, Sunday Times
The same player was unlucky with a header from a corner which clipped the crossbar.
A beautifully clipped wobbly blob will always look better than something that has been forced unwillingly into a perfect geometric shape. Times, Sunday Times
Participants were seated approximately 60 cm from the monitor, and a small microphone was clipped to the front of their shirt or collar.
When she could no longer write newsy notes to a long list of friends, she clipped photos out of the Montrose newspaper and sorted them into envelopes for Paul to mail.
He is more reckless when younger; when his ear is clipped by a sniper's bullet, his concern is that he doesn't bleed on his single epaulette, and later he is deafened when with his men he uses too much powder sabotaging the enemy.
The service was clipped and unsmiling, which is usually followed by ` but efficient, 'but we sat with mostly empty dinner plates for 15 minutes, the kids (and their parents) getting restless in the hot side room. Austin360 - XL Headlines
There seems to be an unclosed CENTER tag in this post, probably associated with the embedded video; all posts below this one are shown with center justification, and some text at the RM is being clipped. Matthew Yglesias » King James Fires Up the Waaambulance
Their old homes on Bunker Hill began to languish in their fading glory, often well-hidden behind maturing landscaping now left to grow without being clipped.
The projecting ears were tufted, and the eyebrows bristled with greying unclipped hairs, forming an overgrown ridge above the eyes. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
Steel posts in America don't have holes in them - instead they have knobs on the sides where the wire is clipped on with staples.
The man who stood there was quite small, with a heavily tanned face, clipped moustache, dark wavy hair. A SEASON IN HELL
Gita Patel—at least, that was the name on the tag clipped on to her lab coat—set her instruments down and slid around on her wheeled stool to face me as I struggled into a sitting position. Good in Bed
He was not using locking biners on his station slings and with him moving around and hitting his gear one of the slings unclipped from his harness and he rested on the other sling.
Officials said that the coach was thought to have clipped a kerb before hitting a lamppost and a tree and then overturning. Times, Sunday Times
Clipped, laconic, understated, but with quirky rubatos and accelerandos to convey something simmering underneath.
But then three flights from home while on the flat, Valiramix clipped the heels of the horse in front and crashed to the ground.
Dryden accidentally clipped the notorious bruiser across the nose with his stick.
This little beauty, cradled so gently in my arms, was howling directly into the microphone clipped to my lapel. Christianity Today
It was surrounded by tall clipped hedges of yew and holly, some of which still exhibited the skill of the topiarian artist, * The Antiquary
So it is just fair that the wings of the councillors are clipped to usher sanity in the councils and for the sake of development.
There was a fake I.D. badge clipped to the lapel and the requisite pens in the breast pocket.
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
She turned away from its satinwood and pastel brocades and went to the window, which afforded a view of a large formal garden, which even at this dreary time of year looked pleasant, with its sunken pond and statues and straight paths and clipped hedges, but the sight of it did nothing to quiet en her thoughts. You Don't Take Names
Kara unclipped and held her weapon out in front of herself, left hand over right wrist and shuffled through dust and orange nibbed needles.
It was as if, instead of clipping a photo of sophora, sea lavender, or inkberry to the side of my easel, I had clipped this very photograph. Duma Key
They were creating a really tense atmosphere but they were not quite bad enough to do anything drastic and all I could respond with was my Paddington Bear hard stare and to stand my ground - I would love to have clipped the ring-leader around the ear (as would've happened in my youth) but the establishment is there waiting to pounce on such as me. Whacko ?
A white leather belt clipped her waist.
His clipped voice and poker-faced appearance point to a rather humourless, intimidating figure, but his weary stoicism and commitment to the truth make him the kind of man you would want on your side when the chips fall.
Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
The new ‘Caddy’ system, which costs £249, can be clipped to a belt or golf bag and will provide exact read-outs of distances to bunkers, ponds and greens.
His voice took on a clipped, authoritative tone.
Dr Roger Bannister clipped a second off the world record in a legendary 1954 race in Oxford.
A truck swerved and clipped a parked car.
The remote control was clipped to the sun visor and he pressed the button.

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