Sentence examples for were snipped off from inspiring English sources

It was a shock to the worshippers of Rita Hayworth when her rolling red tresses were snipped off, for "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), and replaced by a curt blond crop.

The ends of each bone were snipped off with dissecting scissors, and a 5 ml syringe containing PBS and equipped with a 25 G needle (Terumo, Leuven, Belgium) was used to flush out the bone marrow from both ends of the bone.

The nictitating membranes were snipped off at the base, and the Harderian glands, located between the medial rectus muscle and the anterior wall of orbit, were separated from the incision formed by excision of the nictitating membrane, were removed in their entirety, together with the complete capsule.

What caught my attention was that the siphons, or "necks," were snipped off.

Alas, it appears that the words "and we're totally crossing our fingers while we're saying this" were snipped off the end of the communique, leaving IOC president Jacques Rogge's professed "optimism" looking faintly naive.

Fingers and testicles are snipped off with bolt cutters during torture sessions.

Narrative threads seem to be snipped off at obscure junctions; nothing is baldly stated.

Shutterfly's paper sizes also have limits, so photos with an unorthodox crop may come with a white border to be snipped off at home.

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

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.

The Victorians genuinely believed that a passion could be snipped off at its roots and then, so to speak, brought indoors and placed in a glass of water, like a cut flower.