Sentence examples for clipping off from inspiring English sources

They shared a partnership of 51, with Bairstow never missing a scoring opportunity; cutting, cover driving, clipping off his toes.

Some grabbed him and wrestled him outside as others hacked at his long black beard with scissors, clipping off six inches.

Standing by a big English boxwood at the arboretum a couple of weeks ago, he snipped through a few leafy branches, clipping off leaves as well as twigs.

To force the plants to concentrate on ripening what's there instead of growing more, start by clipping off the tips of all vines and branches.

The withdrawal of the offer sent IBP shares into a tailspin in March, clipping off roughly 28percentt of the company's value in just one session.

Turn on your outdoor lights at the beginning or end of a working weekday and spend a quarter of an hour pulling out the dead impatiens or clipping off the browned flower stalks of last summer's echinacea.

Tags are clipped off to prevent snags.

To prepare, clip off the fins and remove the skin.

Why do Metrocards have one corner clipped off?

The ball clipped off his glove, and Rodriguez reached third.

And "if you clip off the spent flowers," Ms. Peirce said, "they'll bloom all summer".