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How to use clip in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Clip means to grip tightly. Example: “Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.”

Examples of clip by meaning

verbTo fasten with a clip.

  • Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

nounSomething which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

  • Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.

nounAn unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.

  • She reads at a pretty good clip.
  • He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.

verbTo cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

  • She clipped my hair with her scissors.
  • Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.

verbTo strike with the hand.

  • I’ll clip ye round the lugs!

verbTo hit or strike, especially in passing.

  • The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.

verbTo cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.

  • The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25

verbTo move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).

  • The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.
  • Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.
  • Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

More sentences with clip

  • Play the audio clip to hear how the word is pronounced.From the entry play
  • I said, never clip a dog's nails without a styptic pencil handy.From the entry styptic pencil
  • After lights-out, I clipped the booklight to the cover and continued reading.From the entry booklight
  • Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!From the entry learn
  • My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.From the entry sprung
  • The car moved at a merry clip.From the entry merry
  • Clip the C-47 to the barn doors.From the entry barn doors
  • The clip shows one of his victims lying dead on the pavement.2025 March 15, A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network”, in ProPublica…. From the entry lionize
  • If there was any magic in the video clips, it was a weak spell.2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times…. From the entry shambling
  • Two of the final clips show a herd of ostriches running down a city street.2023 July 6, Melissa Goldin, Karena Phan, “Videos of lions and other animals roaming city streets have nothing to do with protests in…. From the entry Chongzuo
  • I find a member of staff with a clip board, who smiles warmly.2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 42. From the entry clip board
  • Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form.2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the…. From the entry GymTok
  • In the CNN clip, we see Biden, Harris, Pence, and Fauci given the vaccine.2021 January 9, Mary Pearson, “Covid-19 Vaccine”, in Co-op City Times, volume 56, number 2, page 8. From the entry Fauci ouchie
  • The Stars emptied the clip and were the better team in last two periods.2021 March 29, Ben Davila, “Dallas Stars: Are we kidding ourselves about their chances?”, in Fansided, retrieved 20 Apr 2021. From the entry empty the clip
  • Starting January 11, the ‘Word of the Day’ single word clips will be expanded.2021 January 11, Odette Auger, “The Ayajuthem language radiates across territory”, in Toronto Star. From the entry Ayajuthem
  • Decades of overgrazing by deer had reduced its hillsides to clipped lifelessness.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian. From the entry lifelessness
  • But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today.2020 January 2, Colin Robson, “The BBC should look to the future”, in Evening Standard, page 11. From the entry dinner-jacketed
  • Filing cabinets, shelves, paper clips or poster tubes are introduced as examples of collectional artefacts.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57. From the entry collectional
  • When Asha threw the hair clip, the pirates jumped like flying fish to grab it.2016, Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain, edited by Catherine Coe, Yo Ho Ho! (Rising Stars Reading Planet), London: Rising Stars UK, Hodder…. From the entry yo-ho-ho
  • Due to its presumed irresectability the site was marked with metallic clips for later irradiation.2015 July 3, Hayim Gilshtein et al., “Inferior vena cava enteric fistula due to unresected colorectal metastasis”, in World Journal of…. From the entry irresectability
  • Prosecutors say Medina fired eight shots, emptying the clip on his weapon.2015 November 10, Zachary Fagenson, “Florida 'Facebook Killer' goes on trial for wife's murder”, in Reuters, retrieved 20 Apr 2021. From the entry empty the clip
  • Clips in which children’s toys are unboxed are some of the most popular videos on YouTube.2014 December 16, Alex Frank, “Happy Unboxing Day! A Small Guide to the Very Large World of Unboxing Videos”, in Vogue. From the entry unbox
  • JIMMY VICKERS (played by Danny Dyer): Yeah, takes 19 in the clip.2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds, 48:02 from the start, in Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta (film), spoken by Ronnie (Nick Nevern). From the entry toy
  • They uncoil the rope and tie bowlines to clip into their harnesses.2013, Christopher White, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, →ISBN. From the entry bald spot
  • The internet is full of sites with audio clips of various bird songs and calls.2013, Alex Mitchell, The Rurbanite: Living in the Country Without Leaving the City, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry audio clip
  • "The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."2012, Janet Shibley Hyde, Nicole Else-Quest, Half the Human Experience. From the entry facially
  • When I want to use it, I take it, and clip my light to it.2012 May 28, a l l y, “Re: Ask Umra: Kindles”, in uk.media.radio.archers (Usenet). From the entry YMMD
  • No visible tattoos, sovereigns, mismatched jewellery, scrunchies, large clips or hoop earrings.2011 July 1, Caroline Davies, “Harrods 'ladies' code' drives out sales assistant”, in The Guardian. From the entry sovereign

Meaning of clip

  1. verb To grip tightly.
  2. verb To fasten with a clip.
  3. verb To hug, embrace.

Full definition of clip

Questions about clip in a sentence

How do you use clip in a sentence?
Clip is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.”
What is a short sentence with clip?
“I’ll clip ye round the lugs!”
What does clip mean?
Clip means to grip tightly.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clip (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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