Sentence examples for clipped away from inspiring English sources

"A lot of the power has been clipped away.

They're manicured artifacts, from which the essential spectacle of human effort has been clipped away.

As a result he's clipped away through midwicket for a couple.

He gets clipped away for a boundary from another one that strays down the leg side.

He pushes the third menacingly up near Gilchrist's toes, but it's calmly clipped away.

A Tremlett half-volley was clipped away to the square leg-boundary.

The credit crunch's all-reaching scythe is gradually clipping away at its latest victim … our holidays.

After clipping away some fur and cleansing the skin, several electrode patches are adhered to the skin over the right and left chest areas and along the sternum.

The gardener was an Andalusian with thinning hair, clipping away at some grass on the other side of the road from the villa.

The next delivery was the stuff of dreams for the bowler: to the left-hander Mitchell Johnson, who saw only something homing to leg stump that he could clip away square for runs; a nightmare.

After making only four from his first 42 balls he started to push on, clipping away off back foot and hitting his punchy drives down the ground until finally, half an hour after lunch, Mark Wood sent a shortish ball across the face of his bat and Cook parried and then caught the chance at first slip.