clippers

Example Sentences

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As Carlos told it, his brother took the clippers, began to buzz, and in the harrowing tradition of at-home haircuts gone amok, somewhere along the way…

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 8, 2025

Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Plant people are easy to buy for — and hard too — because the really die-hard gardeners usually want nothing more than their favorite battered clippers and an old table knife for weeding.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024

In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

First chance he got, he went through her drawers "looking for my nail clippers," and there he found her packet of love letters.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez