How To Use Scissors In A Sentence
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Sterile scissors are then used to make a horizontal incision through the skin and orbicularis muscle at the lateral canthal angle 1 cm toward the lateral orbital rim (left image).
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I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
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Round off the corners with a pair of scissors.
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Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
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It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
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The scissors are in the kitchen drawer .
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She found a pair of nail scissors and cut the stitches.
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The Secure comes with other tools as well - a blade, nailfile, screwdriver, scissors, key ring, LED light and ballpoint pen.
TG Daily
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Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
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While next Tuesday's Safety Scissors gig is certified bananas, last Tuesday over at Blizzarts it was a teary eyed rager as the Flexout crew bid a fond farewell to their regular night.
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That's not the right way to hold a pair of scissors.
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Using scissors, cut on a slight angle to the left of the middle of the bun.
Times, Sunday Times
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December 7, a municipal, at the head of a deputation from the Commune, came to read to the king a decree which ordered him to take from the prisoners "knives, razors, scissors, penknives, and all other sharp instruments of which prisoners presumed criminal are deprived; and to make a most minute search of their persons and of their apartments.
The Ruin of a Princess
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It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
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I mean, they're confiscating nail clippers and cuticle scissors and all of these things, and basically rousting people at the security gates.
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The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors.
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When you take the scissors, remember to put them back.
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Have you seen the scissors? I want to snip off this loose thread.
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During the fourth year the child learns to cut with scissors and to thread beads, develops a mature pencil grasp, and learns to draw.
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To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Everything was recorded: Félix cut twice with the bistoury and eight times with scissors.
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She took a pair of scissors and cut the string.
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Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
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uncrossed" when they are closed, and that the player who started the game crossed his feet if the scissors were crossed and, if not, his feet were uncrossed.
School, Church, and Home Games
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Use sharp scissors to limit fabric movement when cutting.
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Some were gift-wrapped, others - scissors, torches, nutcrackers - were just in their bubble packs and looked sort of naked in comparison.
Times, Sunday Times
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Always use sterilized toenail clippers, nippers or scissors.
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In 1617, Doña Ana de Angulo was brought before the tribunal for giving a woman in labor peyote and placing scissors under her pillow to avert afterpains.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits -- the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young, -- and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors.
Just So Stories
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With paper, photographs, scissors, glue and ink, she recorded and perhaps resolved her passage from girlhood to womanhood.
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At least the finger bow provided at the movable scissors blade is made ... of a resilient synthetic material or similar material.
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The wound proper is cleared of all foreign material either by clipping with the scissors, curetting or mopping with cotton or gauze pledgets.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Walkthrough: you have to put the objects in the blue spots baloon airscrew big nut watering can hand-saw bowling ball wheel leaf frog statue scissors
Archive 2007-09-01
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Bloomingdale's: Wagner of Switzerland Pen with built-in flashlight, blade, letter opener, nail file, clip, scissors, and screwdriver for $8.39 + $6 s&h (it says $13.99 but it falls to $8.39 after you add it to your cart)
Morning Deals - The Consumerist
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When you take the scissors, remember to put them back.
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She has been trying to design Scissors Crab, a plastic crab with goofy eyes on springs and pincers that can cut paper.
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Use your scissors for sewing only; tiny nicks in them can damage fabric.
The Sun
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Use kitchen scissors to chop the spinach into the feta cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's not the right way to hold a pair of scissors.
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‘Besides the cans of insecticide, we also spotted a pair of scissors, a razor blade and raffia string,’ said the chief of Police.
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Untruss the bird and use kitchen scissors to cut out the backbone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The washbag should only contain absolute musts and with the current climate no scissors, razor blades, penknives, etc unless you want them confiscated.
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She pulled the scissors from her dress pocket and snipped her hair off.
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Snip chives into little pieces using scissors or mince them on a cutting board with a sharp knife.
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A rotary cutter can be used on straight edges, but use scissors for small curves and notches.
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He flung himself into the air and whacked a scissors kick into the top corner of the Manchester United net.
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It is possible to clip your own dog with a pair of hairdresser's scissors.
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Mrs. Haines stood nearby, holding scissors to cut a ribbon.
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She felt them braid her hair very tightly and then heard them take the scissors to it.
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You can also use these scissors to trim any straggling hairs.
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This means you need scissors to cut your scissors free.
The Sun
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Using sewing or manicure scissors, carefully snip out the burnt carpet fibres; or use tweezers to pull them out.
Times, Sunday Times
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a shabby little hussif, containing a thimble, scissors, needles and some skeins of unbleached thread.
The Wings of the Morning
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Don't use these scissors to cut paper or card.
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Doubled in size, the scissors no longer slipped easily through the permanent track.
SNOWLINE
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All rats first line of subarachnoid catheter, then the equivalent of T8 vertebral level and marked with micro scissors cut the spinal cord dorsal 2/3 rat corticospinal tract transection injury model.
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Under the influence of his reverence for those doctrines, he made up, from the pages of the Bible, with the use of a pair of scissors, a volume which he entitled the Philosophy of Jesus, and which he panegyrized as the most beautiful and precious morsel of ethics that existed.
History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
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Write a python application that plays the Rock-Paper-Scissors game against the computer.
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They are designed to be cut at regular intervals (often indicated by a vertical row of a small scissors included in the repeating pattern), resulting in scarves of a standard size.
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Use small, sharp scissors or a utility knife and cutting mat.
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In the ensuing minutes, Chelsea almost concede two: Ambrosio saves brilliantly from a Dado Prso header, before Chelsea are forced to clear off the line from a Morientes scissors kick.
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Use scissors to cut the fragile stems or they mush.
Food Watch
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She picked up a pair of scissors from the windowsill.
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So I get a little narked and start going for my ear with the scissors in the same manner as one might angrily grab for a fly.
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The prowler was the only unfamiliar thing, harmless and weaponless now that his scissors lay abandoned on the floor between the sisters’ beds.
Slice Of Cherry
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With another quick glance around, he saw that the first aid kit was open and that the pair of scissors contained within were missing.
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The very much indented leaves, whose projections can be completely removed with a dexterous snip of the scissors, generally furnish the various layers of the barricade; the little robinia-leaves, with their fine texture and their unbroken edges, are better suited to the more delicate work of the cells.
Bramble-Bees and Others
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Use your scissors for sewing only; tiny nicks in them can damage fabric.
The Sun
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Multi-purpose scissors are also a useful tool for cutting these shapes.
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He found some gauze and brought it back, with tape and a pair of scissors.
FAMILY PICTURES
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He did the spin-a-roonie, then hit a scissors kick on Bubba for a two.
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He wrote about scissors and shears in the September 1999 issue of The Chronicle.
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Use scissors to cut the carnation stem lengthwise into three.
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Assistants hold needles and thread, small scissors, and chains.
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Using the razor and scissors, we sculpted her hair into a much more contemporary look.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scissors of Fragoso had little to do, for it was not a question of cutting these wealthy heads of hair, nearly all remarkable for their softness and their quality, but the use to which he could put his comb and the tongs, which were kept warming in the corner in a brasier.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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The climax is a clitorectomy, executed with a pair of scissors, right in the audience's face.
Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?
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The scissors have gone missing again.
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They include one of scissors jabbed deep into an arm.
The Sun
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The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at ￡1.99 in department stores and toy shops.
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This is celebrated by a playful ritual in which the baby is given a number of gifts, such as a pencil and a pair of scissors.
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The samples were cut repeatedly with scissors and then ground to a fine dust with an agate mortar and pestle.
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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
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It was in weather like this that she had an urge to take the scissors and cut the whole lot off.
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Remove abalone from shells and use scissors to trim the dark apron around each piece.
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That's not the right way to hold a pair of scissors.
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Hannah found some scissors, material and glue, while Ton found paints and paintbrushes.
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She picked up a pair of scissors at the age of eight and started cutting traditional decorative patterns - common practice among country women.
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Some even had penknives, lighters and nail scissors confiscated.
The Sun
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This compact case contains fine-tip cuticle scissors, a cuticle pusher, a stainless-steel nail file and a chrome nail clipper.
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In addition, the monthly updates to the microfilm system need no scissors and paste.
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Francis creates her work using fabric, scissors and a sewing machine to embroider collages into images.
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She eats junk food and cuts her hair with nail scissors.
Christianity Today
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If using scissors, a straight run is best cut by opening the blades a little then drawing the fabric through.
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Scissors are used to make 2 slits in the tape to pull through the gastrostomy tube.
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The snip of Beryl's embroidery scissors broke into his reverie.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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She pointed to how a scissors company had created a community not based on scissors but rather based on how people used scissors, in this case scrapbooking.
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Right from the start it seemed as if Harris' entire political staff were hunting through the legislative library armed only with red pencils and sharp scissors.
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They work hand in hand, one after the other and act like scissors, cutting up this [APP] protein into smaller bits and smaller bits called amyloid peptide, which we think is the cause of Alzheimer's disease when it's abnormally accumulated in the brain," explained study senior author Philip C. Wong, a professor of pathology and of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Medlogs - Recent stories
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Make a nick in the cloth with the scissors.
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One person used the scissors repeatedly before he quit the stage, taking time to consider each cut.
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Then he cleared all the little instruments out of his pocket-case -- the scissors, the forceps, the bistouries, the lancets -- and he laid them all out beside the stethoscope, to make as good a show as possible.
Round the Red Lamp
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But with a 16 year experience of holding those scissors and combs, Sandrine was sure that a bit of layering will do the needful.
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David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the scuffing of the barber's shoes on the lino and the snap of his scissors.
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Then he lunges at me, with tweezers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, bottle openers and scissors all snipping, whirring and snapping at me in perfect synchronicity.
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Mrs. Haines stood nearby, holding scissors to cut a ribbon.
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You also need card, gold spray paint, glue, scissors, a pin and a paperclip.
The Sun
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Use scissors to snip the crispy bacon into small pieces.
The Sun
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Scissors no doubt for cutting stencil codes and the mirror for signals.
WHITE LIES
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Some of the most frequently found objects include knitting needles, sets of cutlery, corkscrews and scissors.
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The trim is made by tracing around the curved edges of the box and cutting with decorative edge scissors.
One More Altered Box
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Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
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Civilian hardware: cooker, dishware, knives and scissors, stainless steel products, metal crafts, safes and furniture fittings.
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The swimmer did a scissors kick with every two arm strokes.
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From Sheffield, famous for making scissors, scythes, knives, razors, and the like, 769 metalworkers petitioned Parliament in 1789.
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Scissors, saws, knives, scalpels, hemostats, etc. - such tools are becoming too expensive to throw away after one use.
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Using the razor and scissors, we sculpted her hair into a much more contemporary look.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a paper jam, and she's got some scissors that you can actually see there on the counter, and she's trying to fix the paper jam.
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frazzles" of straw on the forehead which tell where a brim once was; for the Ridger cuts the front out with the same scissors or knife with which he shaves, and with no more accuracy of outline.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
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Furiously, she grabbed a large pair of scissors and started snipping away.
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We now take all sharp objects off passengers, and have trays of scissors, penknives and bottle-openers by the end of each shift.
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In 1967, they were the first company to produce plastic-handled scissors.
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He or she carefully incises this mark with a knife blade or scissors to expose the underlying fascia covering the intrinsic laryngeal musculature.
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Use the next page to list all your scissors and shears, when they were sharpened and new ones you need.
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I was just not sure which one I wanted to put money into, and then it hit me, my hand was hurting from hand sewing binding on the formerly cut with scissors strip quilted placemats!
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Use scissors to snip the crispy bacon into small pieces.
The Sun
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And, ah, get soap, shampoo, scissors, a razor and some gel if you can.
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Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly.
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In a feeble attempt to demonstrate how loathsome women are, John Hurt even tells the entire labyrinthian plot of Samson and Delilah, replete with film clips of Hedy Lamarr wielding a pair of scissors.
No Upside of Anger
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Hedge shears, like bypass pruners, also work like scissors; the cutting blade is beveled on the inside edge.
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You'll also need scissors, photographic paper, clear Plexiglas’ or heavy glass, processing chemicals in trays, a darkened room with a safelight and a sink, and a light source (an enlarger, perhaps).
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More specialized instruments, such as skin hooks or tenotomy scissors, may be added to the tray, depending on the surgeon's preference.
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The second exercise involved removing tissue down to the fascial plane, using scissors, scalpel, and forceps as necessary.
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Make eyelet holes with a hole punch or scissors in the top left and right corners of both triangles.
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This is easily done with kitchen scissors and the backbone should be saved for stock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furiously, she grabbed a large pair of scissors and started snipping away.
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Powered by a power drill, knives, scissors, shears and rotary mower blades can also be sharpened.
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After a few minutes of pushing all the connections to make sure they were all secure and then setting to work on the cable ties with a pair of scissors everything is back to normal.
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Then we had the trainee hairdressers who were not allowed scissors in the classroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘You only need a piece of evenweave fabric, some embroidery floss and a pair of scissors to start,’ Huang said.
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Add details by layering shapes over the base paper, use paper punches and scalloped scrapbooking scissors to add style, use a gold calligraphy pen to add names.
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Can I just borrow the scissors for a second?
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When you take the scissors, remember to put them back.
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Turn the skirt to the right side and unpick the seam using an unpicking tool of sharp pointed scissors.
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Then the skinny fey usher in white gloves neatly snips your proffered ticket in two: with a pair of nail scissors.
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You had a magic haircut achieved without scissors and set off the smoke-alarm by scorching the toast.
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If you have strays within your bikini line, you can pluck them with tweezers or trim them very carefully with scissors.
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Scissors no doubt for cutting stencil codes and the mirror for signals.
WHITE LIES
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You can also use these scissors to trim the straggling hairs at the tops of your thighs.
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A small suture scissors was used to " fish " for the deeply embedded hair.
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The Florentine artists took a sheet of gold or of silver and divided the sheet up with great scissors, and then they hammered the cut-out pieces as only a Florentine hammerman could hammer them.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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When his knees were stiff with cold, he stepped into a saloon and drank a glass of whiskey, then at a general store purchased a pair of scissors.
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But in the split second that her head spun around to verify what Thames told her, Sam's right leg shot up in a scissors kick.
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My youngest memory is sitting up in my pram and cutting the top off my bottle teat with a pair of scissors, I can even describe the room and where I was parked
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You must stop the dolphin and start the scissors kick just before your legs break the surface at the end of your first pull.
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Have you seen the scissors? I want to snip off this loose thread.
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He took a pair of scissors and cut her hair.
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Remove the top of a one-quart jug and then scallop the edge with scissors.
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This may seem like sacrilege, but take out a ruler and some scissors and - it's okay, you can do it - cut the scarf in half.
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He reached over to the end table where he kept a large ceramic coffee cup crammed with every sort of writing implement, assorted combs, scissors, letter openers and other junk.
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The pieces can be cut with scissors into small squares and put into color categories.
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Hedge shears, like bypass pruners, also work like scissors; the cutting blade is beveled on the inside edge.
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Use scissors to round off the straight edge at each end.
Times, Sunday Times
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A broadwing couldn't have pulled this off; nor could a broadwing have used foreclaws as cleverly as she did, snipping the wire net free with special scissors, then cutting the ropes holding Aubri down with a heavy knife she had already used once to good effect.
The Black Gryphon
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He flung himself into the air and whacked a scissors kick into the top corner of the Manchester United net.
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Airport security presumably confiscated her tweezers and manicure scissors.
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Hair by Scissors Boyish cuts retain their charm.
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Mrs. Williams also brought a pair of blunt-edged scissors, and some mucilage - a thick, brownish liquid that oozed out through a slit in the rubber-slanted cover when you pressed on it just right.
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Never poke a finger or scissors into an electric socket.
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Hurry up with the scissors. I need them.
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Use kitchen scissors to chop the spinach into the feta cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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With cuticle scissors, trim unruly or longer hairs above the upper brow line.
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Groups of enforcers roam the town armed with scissors to trim unruly hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shirt had a long slash across the abdomen where it looked like somebody had cut through it with a knife or a pair of scissors.
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The scissors component was added, the platform was bolted on.
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Mexican wrestler named "Shocker 1000% handsome" (L) confronts "Captain Morgan" during the first tournament of "stone, paper and scissors", in Puebla, Mexico on February 14, 2009.
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Contains: two pairs of angled scissors, tweezers, large and small angled cuticle pushers, nail file and cleaner.
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Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
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They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with.
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The product range includes household knives, chef's knives, multiutility pieces with scissors, nail filers, bottle openers and butler knives.
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Other items confiscated prior to boarding include scissors, nail files, clippers and pen knives.
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I needed a pair of scissors to finally cut it open.
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Some might carry blood counting equipment or culture media for throat swabs, otoscope, ophthalmoscope, catheters, sterile gloves, sutures, needles, scissors, and other such essentials…
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If you've taught in a classroom, you're probably familiar with the concept, but must still admire the inexpensive and extensive sets that only need scissors, glue, and brads to put together.
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In the ensuing minutes, Chelsea almost concede two: Ambrosio saves brilliantly from a Dado Prso header, before Chelsea are forced to clear off the line from a Morientes scissors kick.
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Simply cut the foam to length with a pair of scissors, peel off the backing paper, and press it firmly against the doorstop.
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Liberty of London tana lawn is so thin that I can fold several squares into a coin purse, with enough room for a folding scissors, needle case, small spool of thread, and thimble (this one is a wooden one from Russia I stole from my daughters).
Archive 2008-06-01
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He leaves the room and comes back with scissors and a handful of old white athletic socks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Discover that despite the aid of pairs of compasses, scissors and anything else you consider useful, the most you can get in before it breaks is about 1 cm.
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When his pack was unrolled, calicoes, glittering knives, razors, scissors, clocks, cotton caps, shoes and notions made a holiday at a fair.
Megan Doherty: My Walking Tour With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
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Apart from belts worn under the clothing, our informants also spoke of a special belt for the upper clothing of the dead which, like the rest of the garments, was tom and never cut with scissors, from a piece of white calico.
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He learnt how to tie knots and to use scissors with either hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matt applies a full nelson with body scissors, and we get a speech from Coach and Al about how people might think Matt's not doing anything right now, but he totally is.
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Compounding this, the editors have patchworked the images together as though they'd be uninvited from the wrap party if more than six consecutive frames from the same shot passed by, uninterrupted by scissors.
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He picks up the little nail scissors and begins to snip at his beard.
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She went to the kitchen, and grabbed a pair of scissors out of a drawer.
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The pivotable attachment of the cylinder may be horizontally and vertically offset from a pivot connection of the scissors lift.
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I opened the medicine cabinet and grabbed a pair of scissors for protection, and then scoped out the hallway.
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A small, heavy-toothed saw; scissors, three scalpels-round-bladed, straight-bladed, scoop-bladed; the silver blade of a tongue depressor, a tenaculum-
Drums of Autumn
