clipped

Example Sentences

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Programmes can be attacked, clipped up into decontextualised snippets and broadcast around the world fast.

From BBC

He clipped over a penalty to put the visitors 10 points clear inside quarter of an hour.

From BBC

The truth of this Dodgers season was recently found in a place where all sports truths are clipped and tapered and styled into reality.

From Los Angeles Times

He pursed his lips under a neatly clipped moustache, which had been oiled with pomade to hold its center part, same as his hair.

From Literature

How odd it is to hear Miss Genovese’s clipped voice here, on this fire escape, instead of in the switchboard room at Central.

From Literature