Sentence examples similar to clipped word from inspiring English sources

Like cellphones, those models sometimes clipped words from both incoming and outgoing calls and introduced an unwanted robotic sound to the conversation.

The cumulative frustration of facing three of baseball's elite pitches in four games was expressed in the tense, clipped words of Manager Terry Collins after the final game in the sequence.

Clipped words and clipped wings.

Poorly fitting dentures clipped her words.

The friends, Vanessa Bravo and Sandra Sanchez, had clipped the words from a message Mr. Mayi had once written.

He loosened his stump style, began fielding more questions from voters (his clipped, five-word answers have been replaced by sometimes long monologues) and shed the battery of elected officials that would flank him at public appearances.

He produced copies or tracings of can labels -- or used actual printed ones -- in repetitive groupings, clipped boldface words from newspapers, cut them up and rearranged them, and in many cases made cryptographic compositions of numbers and letters in mysterious sequences, orderly or not.

I frantically searched for the word "bones" so I could nod to her budding sexuality with Roethke's "I knew a woman, lovely in her bones," but superstitiously didn't want to clip the word "bones" from a grizzly headline.

Clip words and images that represent hip-hop artists from different decades.

Hoping to stir up ancestral memories of blockbusters, they came up with freeze-dried versions of the synthesizer orchestras on "Thriller," and Ms. Spears clips words like Mr. Jackson.

He spoke at an impossibly fast clip, words firing like excited synapses.