Sentence examples for were trimmed from inspiring English sources

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were trimmed

verb

To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'. The adposition of can be used in the present perfect tense to designate the removed part.

  • Place the screen material in the frame, secure it in place, and trim the edges.

Exact(60)

Portions were trimmed.

Vector sequences were trimmed.

Expenses were trimmed.

(1) Adapters and indexes were trimmed.

Briefly, raw reads were trimmed with cutadapt65.

The bluestone walls were trimmed in brownstone.

Filled-in nucleotides were trimmed off when doing methylation calling.

Flakes were trimmed and used as scrapers or knives.

Ns on either end of the resultant contigs were trimmed.

(They were trimmed to the statutory maximum of $500).

Horses stood patiently as their hooves were trimmed.

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