Sentence examples for had been snipped from inspiring English sources

About three inches had been snipped from Boston's Rapunzel.

Scenes we'd laboured over had been snipped away.

A little before 9 a.m., Ms. Ferguson, 51, slipped into a black Michael Kors dress — the label had been snipped out — that hugged her shapely figure.

At the corners, two courses of brick protrude at a 45-degree angle as if they had been snipped off with pinking shears.

The camp blankets had been snipped and made into tiny blankets for the beds in her miniature house, the white linen tablecloths the sheets.

More pitiable, his whiskers had been snipped off, an indignity suffered when he'd petitioned for refuge in a shanty near our home, where children made sport by taunting strays.

Inside, the price has been snipped away on the diagonal.

Red tape constraining trade in services, international investment and public procurement has been snipped away.

For Myriad's patents are not on the genes as they exist in the human body, but on isolated, modified versions that have been snipped from the genome and chemically altered to make them useful in a laboratory.

Of course, the most sampled aspect is the voice of Kirsty Young, presenter of Desert Island Discs, which has been snipped, sliced and reconfigured to make her an unseen character in the story.

The Sumerian duck also finds an echo, much later on, in a single-bar electric fire whose backplate has been snipped into the form of a yellow fish, a tench swimming in the grate, by Bill Woodrow.