Sentence examples for were clipped off from inspiring English sources

Yet as soon as the flag, made of 400 yards of fabric, was lowered from the ramparts, pieces were clipped off and given away as souvenirs, significantly reducing its original size, 30 by 42 feet.

All the plants inside the cages (ungrazed) and in 1 m × 1 m unprotected (grazed) plots at each site were clipped off at ground level after 31 days (8 August 2008), air-dried for two weeks, and weighed.

14 bases were clipped off the end of the second read to remove low-quality overlapping ends.

Reactions were stopped by spinning cells through oil for 1 minute at 17,000 g, tubes were frozen in ethanol/dry ice, and tube-bottoms containing the cell pellets were clipped off into 1 mL of 0.5 M NaOH.

Short read sequences were evaluated for residual adapter sequences and low-quality bases were clipped off the read-ends using FastQC v 0.10.0 (Andrews 2010) and sickle (Joshi and Fass 2011).

The tags could easily be clipped off, transforming the "fac-simile" into an excellent counterfeit.

The foreskin dies from the pressure of the rubber band in a grooved ring, and drops off or is clipped off a week later.

On closer inspection, we saw that their orange stamens had been clipped off to protect any passing white T-shirts from their fatal stain.

Since the width of the slugs is also uniform, when shorter lines are being cast the composing stick is furnished with thick, blank matrices; once cast, the line is clipped off to the proper length.

The band compresses the foreskin against a plastic ring slipped inside it; the foreskin dies within hours for lack of blood and, after a week, falls off or can be clipped off "like a fingernail," said Tzameret Fuerst, the company's chief executive officer, who compared the process to the stump of an umbilical cord's shriveling up and dropping off a few days after it is clamped.

The hair is clipped off using hand shears, or sometimes simply pulled, after which the camel's body is oiled.