Examples of clipping in a Sentence
Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2024
Like the walls of his tenement house, lined with calendar clippings, the museum that bears his name is born of curiosity, of being awake to the world, and terribly, marvelously interested.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
Amend soil as necessary with materials like compost, manure, wood clippings, and sphagnum peat moss.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
Four years in the NFL Justice’s press clippings still fill countless scrapbooks in his daughter’s home in Cherryville.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
The envelopes were filled with newspaper clippings and microfiche that offered more glimpses into Augie’s life.
—Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
Since there were no photographs, historical newspaper clippings about the accident helped pinpoint the location of the ship, explained underwater explorer and historian Valerie van Heest, who developed the search grid.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
The find was possible thanks to modern technology and old newspaper clippings.
—Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
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15th century, in the meaning defined above
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