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Example sentences for: clipped

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An author may omit letters, perhaps to show clipped gerund forms (singin', goin', whistlin') , to indicate dropped hs ('ello, 'adn't, 'ome) , or lost final ds (husban', tol') .
The Palace Gardens are the pride of Queluz, with clipped hedges in perfect geometric array, imaginative fountains, and armies of statues.
To control for any bias introduced by length variation, a program randomly clipped 300 nucleotide fragments for word counting.
' These are to be clipped and put in a manila folder, in the bottom drawer"--he pointed down from where he sat--"over there."
The video footage indicates that he was carrying an unidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim.