Clipped
in sentence
34 examples of Clipped in a sentence
The first 40 miles, they
clipped
by as we benefited from a little tail wind.
XL: So we
clipped
part of this sensor, and attached that to a switch to control the cells, and we packed this switch into an engineered virus and injected that into the brain of the mice.
We've developed 3D-printed, low-cost hardware that comes in at less than five dollars to produce, which can then be
clipped
onto a smartphone and makes it possible to get views of the back of the eye of a very high quality.
One of the skis just
clipped
a pressure ridge at the end of the runway, banking.
Lombard's performance is
clipped
and starchy and it's doubly sad to think she was dead only a year later.
Whenever she effortlessly switches her naturally high-pitched voice to one that is
clipped
and throaty, I can't help but giggle.
I think i would rather have my piles
clipped
with a pair of rusty clippers than bear another 5 minutes of this movie.
The dialog is swift, clipped, to the point.l
And that's not to mention the white flashes and the
clipped
endings to almost every spoken sentence.
All but one story from 'Quartet' does not travel well into the contempory era; and the actors speech is decidedly
"clipped"
, as only British pre-1950's actors delivery can be.
Noel Coward,a witty and urbane man,was friends with Louis Mountbatten.Mr Coward,a long-time admirer of all things naval,was commissioned to write a story loosely based on the loss of Mountbatten's ship.In a peculiarly British way it was considered that a film about the Royal Navy losing an encounter at sea would be good propaganda.It was also considered a good idea to have Mr Coward play the part of the ship's captain.Amang the many qualities needed to command a fighting ship,the ability to speak in a very
clipped
voice and sing sophisticated "point" songs does not come very high up the list at Admiralty House,or at least one would hope not.A captain must earn and retain the respect of the wardroom and the lower deck alike.
Clipped
sentences?
But everyone seems to be speaking their lines the same clipped, precise way; I imagine Mamet wanting to make sure not a syllable of his scintillating script got missed.
Crawford insisted that her lines be written in the same
clipped
style as her co-stars' Young and Tone, leading to much unintentional hilarity as these three communicate in a telegraph-like shorthand that sounds like a Monty Python sketch ("Wuthering Heights" performed in semaphore).
No, the filmmakers don't show the cub getting
clipped.
It so happens that as I was watching Sunset Boulevard, I was chewing gum, and Gloria Swanson's clipped, derisive tone felt more like it was directed not at William Holden's washed up Joe Gillis in 1950, but at me, sitting on my couch in 2008.
"Even angels can get their wings clipped!" says New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy (Franchot Tone) to good-time girl Barbara Whitfield (Jean Wallace) as he tries to convince her to tell the truth, and of the consequences if she doesn't.
Her speech is too
clipped
and with little intonation.
However, it doesn't quite measure up to the potent subject with its theatrical presentation,
clipped
dialogue, time wasting filler, staginess, poor character depth, confusing language and dialect issues, and a rather contrived monologue at the end.
Legislation such as the US Glass-Steagall Act
clipped
their wings.
Since these are the fastest-growing large economies, the Bank’s revision has
clipped
half a percentage point off world growth over the last five years, according to the IMF.
In the past, he
clipped
the wings of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had strong ties to the merchant class, and of Mohammad Khatami, a reformer whose support came from Westernized middle-class professionals.
His speech was clipped, as if under continuous rigorous control.
At last the brick houses began to follow one another more closely, the earth resounded beneath the wheels, the "Hirondelle" glided between the gardens, where through an opening one saw statues, a periwinkle plant,
clipped
yews, and a swing.
As in the darkness he explored the loose earth with his hand, to make sure that the mark was entirely obliterated, he felt something drop on his hand; it was a whole side of Mathilde's hair which she had
clipped
and threw down to him.
Her head was dressed on this occasion with the greatest pains; a marvellous art had been employed to conceal the gap left by the
clipped
locks.
and let the poor Basilio die, Basilio whose poverty
clipped
the wings of his happiness, and brought him to the grave!"
To this Dona Rodriguez, who was present, made answer, "My lady the duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of fortune; 'but laws go as kings like;' let nobody speak ill of duennas, above all of ancient maiden ones; for though I am not one myself, I know and am aware of the advantage a maiden duenna has over one that is a widow; but 'he who
clipped
us has kept the scissors.'""For
all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be
clipped
about duennas, so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even though it sticks.'"
Tarvin flung an American quarter skyward, and
clipped
it with his revolver as it fell.
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