scissored

Example Sentences

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Let the beef and pork render out until they shrink into these tender morsels encrusted with char, ready perhaps to be scissored right on the grill and dunked in sauce.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2023

The puck kicked slowly back to Kochetkov and he swiped it into his leg pads and scissored them shut before Sprong could pounce.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022

“There was no water protection at all. At the end of six months, it was scissored and trashed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2016

But note the glowing halo around his head and the long fingers of his right hand splayed across his abdomen: The index and middle finger are scissored open as if giving a benedictory sign.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2014

But there was only the swish of my jeans as my legs scissored past each other until I got to the main road.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez