[
UK
/klˈɪpɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫɪpɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫɪpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- the act of clipping or snipping
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an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
he searched through piles of letters and clippings
How To Use clipping In A Sentence
- Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
- As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
- You know the drill: cut the grass; bag the clippings; haul them to the curb for pickup.
- Though Phil's love of traditional climbing is obvious in everything he does, he also enjoys clipping bolts and bouldering.
- I was engaged in the delicate task of clipping the dog's claws.
- It amounts to a dark basement with shelving filled with film cans, reel-to-reel winders, thousands of press clippings and photos, stickers, flyers, and a tiny radio.
- When there is nothing in bloom, she can learn to use her imagination with boughs and branches and clippings from hedges, grasses, and even weeds, to make friendly little bouquets. Learning to Be a Home Keeper
- I'm on a railway platform trying to get to work during a period of heavy storms (service is totally knacked) and I'm in uniform with a crowd around me seriously dis-chuffed and about to remove my nipple rings without unclipping them. I HATE COMPUTERS ( a therapy intermission)
- It's simple to rig, by tying the main line to the top eye, clipping a sinker to the swivel link and tie the leader to the swivel at the end of the boom arm.
- In rougher places you can follow it up with regular thin layers of grass clippings. Times, Sunday Times