scissored

Example Sentences

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Let the beef and pork render out until they shrink into these tender morsels encrusted with char, ready perhaps to be scissored right on the grill and dunked in sauce.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2023

Far from the young actor who combed his thinning hair over the crown, until one night two friends scissored it off and a noble skull was revealed.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2020

“There was no water protection at all. At the end of six months, it was scissored and trashed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2016

His team took the Pac-12 South, scissored USC’s long domination of that city rivalry, and won nine games for the first time in seven years.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2013

But there was only the swish of my jeans as my legs scissored past each other until I got to the main road.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez