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How to use scissor in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Scissor means one blade of a pair of scissors. Example: “The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.”

Examples of scissor by meaning

verbTo cut using, or as if using, scissors.

  • Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.1958, Truman Capote, chapter 4, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, New York: Vintage, published 1993, page 37
  • They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair.2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 48
  • Network Rail, which had been able to secure funding from a multitude of 'patient capital' players across the world, was brought to heel, its credit card scissored.2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39

verbTo excise or expunge something from a text.

  • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  • The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.1955, Lionel Shapiro, chapter 15, in The Sixth of June, Garden City, NY: Doubleday

verbTo move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

  • The runner scissored over the hurdles.
  • His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140

More sentences with scissor

  • The Ground Zero mosque was a scissor statement that divided Americans.From the entry scissor statement
  • Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts.2016, Hongwei Hsiao, Fall Prevention and Protection: Principles, Guidelines, and Practices, →ISBN. From the entry aerial lift
  • As he looks to get a shot away, a clumsy, lunging scissor tackle by Ledley King drags him to the ground.2013, Steve Mingle, From Balti Pies to the Biggest Prize: The Rebirth of Manchester City. From the entry scissor tackle
  • Vary your teasing with long, palm strokes down her outer lips, scissoring, rubbing, and running your fingers between the labia majora and labia minora.2009, Kelli Jae Baeli, Iso (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian, page 159. From the entry scissoring
  • Camera cranes and scissor lifts used to lift a camera and one or more operators high above the ground are also frequently requested.1990, Michael Horwin, Careers in Film and Video Production, page 70. From the entry wetdown
  • She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture.1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500. From the entry fieldling
  • The world avoids falling into perpetual low-grade warfare only because she accidentally creates a scissor statement that tears apart the company before its work is finished.2023 July 30, Helen Lewis, “The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter”, in The Atlantic. From the entry scissor statement
  • Arsenal's Emmanuel Eboué has defended his scissor tackle on Liam Ridgewell by insisting that he "did not want to kill" the Birmingham player in Saturday's match at the Emirates.2010, I did not want to kill Liam Ridgewell, says Emmanuel Eboué, The Guardian. From the entry scissor tackle
  • Marquise was scissoring his arms back and forth in the air as if he were weaving on an invisible loom; he was telling them a story, maniacally.2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 116. From the entry maniacally
  • The black-robed, scissored girls of the drapery store at the next angle of the place were finishing their tenth hour of vigil over goods displayed on the footpath.1913, Arnold Bennett, chapter 3, in Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People, New York: George H. Doran. From the entry scissored

Meaning of scissor

  1. noun One blade of a pair of scissors.
  2. noun Scissors.
  3. verb To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

Full definition of scissor

Questions about scissor in a sentence

How do you use scissor in a sentence?
Scissor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.”
What is a short sentence with scissor?
“The runner scissored over the hurdles.”
What does scissor mean?
Scissor means one blade of a pair of scissors.

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