scissors
Example Sentences
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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.
Johnny Depp, making another appearance in this book, plays the title character, “born” with scissors for hands, who comes down from his castle to live with the kindhearted Boggs family.
From Salon
He approached the draft version of “The Waste Land” by Eliot with a pair of scissors, and returned with modernism’s emblem.
"The way we use a pair of scissors is quite mind-blowing when you think about it," Mr Walker says.
From BBC
Transform boundaries -- the faults where plates slide past each other -- act like natural scissors, slicing across the plate and isolating fragments that form new microplates while subduction continues nearby.
From Science Daily
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