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Example sentences for "scissors"

Lexicographically close words:
scirrhus; scis; scissars; scission; scissor; scit; scite; scito; scituated; scituation
  1. Taking the scissors from him and clipping the frayed edges of his shirt-cuffs and collar.

  2. Tom enters, with a pair of scissors in his hand.

  3. Fortunately, Miss Abigail had stopped to see how the neck looked, and her scissors were hanging by her side for a moment.

  4. I think new dresses are very nice," said Ruby, speaking cautiously, lest she should inadvertently turn her head, and the sharp points of the scissors should run into her neck.

  5. When infected, the separated horny layer must be cut away with scissors to allow of the necessary purification.

  6. Any slough under which pus has collected should be cut away with scissors to permit of free drainage.

  7. Diseased synovial membrane is removed with the scissors or knife.

  8. Devitalised and contaminated tissue is removed with the knife or scissors and the wound purified with antiseptics of the chlorine group or with hydrogen peroxide.

  9. The dissection is rendered easier and is attended with less risk of injury to the nerves, if the patient is placed in the sitting posture so as to empty the veins, and, instead of a knife, the conical scissors of Mayo are employed.

  10. But what her scissors are like and how she uses them and what sort of stuff it is that she cuts things out of, those are things which nobody knows.

  11. The man had already put up his shutters, and was just closing his door, but Burnamy pushed in, and asked to look at the stork-scissors they had seen in the window.

  12. And Molly and her scissors marched away in dudgeon.

  13. Before the last word was well out of Kitty's lips, Molly's small, bright scissors were snapped within an inch of Kitty's nose.

  14. Her straw bag, with her scissors in it, lay beside her.

  15. She grasped a pair of scissors greedily and stabbed the air with them.

  16. But she did not take up the scissors again.

  17. But there was a pair of scissors of mine I couldn't find, and I looked for them high and low till I remembered that I had lent them to Mrs. Blake the week before.

  18. Cut up the organs with sterile scissors into small pieces--say 4 millimetre cubes.

  19. With the help of sterile scissors and forceps divide the organs into roughly rectangular blocks 3 × 1.

  20. Divide the ribs on either side of the sternum and remove a rectangular portion of the anterior chest wall with sterile scissors and a fresh pair of forceps, exposing the heart.

  21. Raise a small fold of skin in a pair of forceps, and make a small incision through the skin with a pair of sharp-pointed scissors or with the point of a scalpel.

  22. The gendarmes searched their cartridge-boxes, and a pair of scissors was passed from hand to hand to the Prince.

  23. If the instructor has not opened the fish previously, this is to be done by the student as follows: On the ventral side, insert the scissors in the vent (in front of the anal fin) and cut straight forward to a point between the opercula.

  24. Schwartz pulled scissors from his bag and clipped at a sleeve.

  25. She found scissors in her sewing box, tossed a cushion onto the floor, sat on it, and began to open the parcel.

  26. By this means the power of the Scissors is greatly increased, not only by the additional leverage obtained by the position of the joints, but by the sliding action of the blades on each other.

  27. Every description of Scissors is made upon this improved principle.

  28. The joints of these Scissors being placed at the side, instead of in the centre as usual, cause the blades to cross diagonally, and thus a drawing cut is obtained, similar to that made by a knife.

  29. Nothing remained but to produce the scissors and cut the beard, by which a small part of it was sacrificed.

  30. If the players do not know the game, they will cross and uncross the scissors in an attempt to pass them correctly.

  31. The legs perform the regular scissors kick at the same time with left arm action, then cross them over and make a smaller scissors kick in conjunction with right arm action while the body is rolling, as in Fig.

  32. The legs are spread apart and snapped together as in the side stroke, but instead of stopping with this scissors kick make an extra small circle kick.

  33. But I pulled a pair of scissors out of my pocket, no snuffers being handy; and then I heer'd a most sad groan.

  34. People are glad to see me come, and they save their knives and scissors for me to sharpen.

  35. So thinking he trudged along with the goose under his arm, and after awhile he came to a village, and there was a knife-grinder turning his wheel and sharpening knives and scissors for people.

  36. So Bessie gave her the rusty scissors she was allowed to use, and let her play make hay till her toy wagon was full.

  37. Methought the polished Scissors blushed To have said so much, and all was hushed.

  38. The two middle-aged people bent over it together, trying first the scissors and then the broken blade of the parson's old knife.

  39. Shutting the drawer, she hurried out into the kitchen, snatching her scissors from the work-basket by the way.


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