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

If you don’t sew, don’t worry, she says, “you can cut them with pinking shears or use no-sew iron-on tape.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

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

Clip-clip went Dedd’s shears, as if to drown out anything I might be thinking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez