clippers

Example Sentences

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Even a small cut from shared nail clippers risks infection, data show.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

As Carlos told it, his brother took the clippers, began to buzz, and in the harrowing tradition of at-home haircuts gone amok, somewhere along the way…

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 8, 2025

Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

The next man follows with the clippers and shaves my head clean in five quick passes.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper