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Example sentences for "clip"

Lexicographically close words:
clinked; clinker; clinkers; clinking; clinks; clipboard; clipped; clipper; clippers; clipping
  1. Clip his Main off close to his Neck, from his head to his shoulders.

  2. Clip his Tail close to his Rump, the Redder it appears the better.

  3. Pare the nails of the sufferer's fingers and clip some hairs from his legs.

  4. If the hair is at last too long, the owner must pray to his god to allow him at least to clip the tips of it.

  5. She is the mother of the race, and every stain of littleness or inferiority cast upon her by our institutions will soil the offspring she sends into the world, and clip and curtail to that extent his fair proportions.

  6. The latter passes twice over the seat on the clip, the first turn holding the clip to the stave, while the second turn is held by the lugs which are hammered down over it.

  7. The end of the band is then turned back over the clip and held down by a staple.

  8. In that case a locking clip was added at each screwed joint above, and secured by bolts, as shown at C in Fig.

  9. Ay, and on Cinyps' bank the he-goats too Their beards and grizzled chins and bristling hair Let clip for camp-use, or as rugs to wrap Seafaring wretches.

  10. It was in yon cave the flock was folded when I laid hands on the ewes for the first time and dragged them forward for him to clip the wool from the rumps.

  11. If I am any judge of speed, the departed was being wafted to his final resting place at the somewhat sprightly clip of twelve or fifteen miles an hour.

  12. I clip this brief summary of his life from the Chicago "Record-Herald.

  13. Clip me no more in those dear arms, Nor thy life's comfort call me, O these are but too powerful charms, And do but more enthral me!

  14. His ammunition was confined to the one clip in his gun and a spare clip in his coat pocket.

  15. Then the gun was silent and before he could get the other clip from his pocket the car had disappeared.

  16. Mind your kerchief most of all, Fingers touch when kerchiefs fall; Shorter ell than mercers clip Is the space from hand to lip.

  17. Tyrant o're tyrants, thou who onely dost Clip the lascivious beauty without lust; What horror at thy sight shootes through each sence; How powerfull is thy silent eloquence, Which never flatters?

  18. Without a sense; and clip each others mind.

  19. My second clip I had to shoot quicker until my last shot, when the coach said, "Plenty of time.

  20. Then the second clip would be inserted, and should be finished with the second minute.

  21. After the fifth shot there is a change, for the gun must be taken from the shoulder and the fresh clip inserted.

  22. The cartridge belt has ten pockets; I found a clip of blanks in mine, and am keeping it to celebrate with.

  23. I wondered who had had that clip of ball cartridges.

  24. I am with the legend of the clip of ball cartridges, I instantly knew it to be true.

  25. First my clip would not go easily into the gun, and made me feel hurried.

  26. Proper firing would bring the exhaustion of the first clip at about one minute.

  27. I plugged away steadily, the ammunition worked well, and I finished my second clip with about fifteen seconds to spare.

  28. The story goes now that the stolen clip of ball cartridges has been found and confiscated.

  29. Still come the variations of the story of the clip of ball cartridges.

  30. My Embassy staff insisted on hurrying me off--" Somebody gave a high-pitched whoop directly behind me and emptied the clip of a pistol.

  31. He kin, and he kin git a clip on the jaw, like I give my man once.

  32. Sit down unless you want me to give you a clip on the jaw!

  33. He bit the end off, and Angus noted the vicious clip of his sharp, white teeth.

  34. Just so," he said, with a sharp clip of his powerful jaws.

  35. Practice soon enables one to clip them rapidly and evenly.

  36. To prepare the rough shell for use, you must first take a long pin and free the interior of each shell from all grit or dirt; next with your scissors clip the extreme tip of the shell so as to leave a tiny hole like the eye of a needle.

  37. Some of the best wool in England came from the Cotswolds, and when you are a Merchant of the Staple you enjoy bargaining for it, whether you want the proceeds of the great summer clip or of the fells after the autumn sheep-killing.

  38. It took a third of the fall clip to buy it; but I don't mind that if it makes my good girl happier.

  39. The sheep sheared six pounds all round this fall; and I'm going to get Marilla an instrument if it takes the price of the whole clip to do it.

  40. Just think, Rush, he paid three hundred dollars for it --nearly a third of what the wool-clip brought!

  41. Instinctively, as he entered the tent, he examined the clip of cartridges in his rifle.

  42. After examining the clip in the chamber, he slipped three other loaded ones in his pockets.

  43. When the tent was packed half full of boughs, he took out a large clasp knife and began to clip off the small twigs on the branches.

  44. Clip the feathers from around the intended seat of operation and wash the clipped surface with a Carbolic Solution, one teaspoonful to a pint of water.

  45. Clip off all hair from around the top of the hoof and rub in well for twenty minutes the following: Red Iodide of Mercury, two drams; Pulv.

  46. It took but a second to drop an empty clip out of the gun and replace it with a fresh one.

  47. The cartridges could be fired one at a time, or the entire clip could be fired in two and a half seconds.

  48. Cripple him, swaddle him, clip his wings, grind him to sausage to mold another man, hers, a doll man.

  49. Don't let them clip you--your words or your deeds.

  50. There is a great wool-clip this year, and prices in London are at record figures, so that Australia, which only retains 17 per cent.

  51. It is impossible to clip a wet sheep, so that after rain there is an interval of forced idleness, which may be prolonged by the vote of the men.

  52. I'll clasp thee and clip thee, coll thee and kiss thee, till I be better than nought and worse than nothing.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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