Sentence examples for cut his ears from inspiring English sources
"They cut his ear off!" she would say, her hand moving swiftly across her neck and ear.
"And everybody knows at least two things about him: he painted sunflowers, and he cut his ear off.
In Dari, the local language, there is a saying: if your donkey lags behind, cut his ear off.
It's still not clear whether he'd been in a fight or cut his ear falling into a bush, but whatever happened, it proved a turning point.
Not only was Great Granny Gaby not a sex worker, but she was also such good mates with one of the greatest artists who ever lived, who cut his ear off for her.
"Van Gogh cut his ear off when he was high on it," Zach Cregger said of the emerald-green cocktail that went back on sale in the United States last year for the first time since 1912.
The American sportswriter Pat Putnam concluded: "Most fight fans would not spend a dime to watch Van Gogh paint Sunflowers, but they would fill Yankee Stadium to see him cut his ear off".
History speculates with intense curiosity on what van Gogh was like during his life, at times alleging he cut his ear off in a fit of unrequited love (a story heavily contested by some scholars) and other times surmising the great artistic talent suffered from color blindness.
If you take too deep a snip of bandage you may accidentally cut his ear.
He was more than six feet tall, his right eyelid drooped, and he had "a painful way of holding his head straight, which leads one to fancy that his shirt collar cuts his ears," according to a contemporary journalist.
