shears

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Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

"I get the sheep shears on it for a mullet," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

“I can’t imagine how frightened those horses must have been,” Brad said as he cropped the grass tightly around the marble stone with garden shears.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

Sometimes, they even costumed themselves with dusty curtains and old tablecloths, scissoring through the faded fabric with Mamá’s gardening shears or tearing them apart with their bare hands.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall