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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') .
Most of the time, these shabby "soldiers" just sit around and rack their (small) brains for new schemes, worried that if profits fall too low, they're going to find themselves "clipped" or "whacked."
Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)
In Donnie Brasco , Pacino has been cast as a sad little Mafia second-rater named "Lefty" Ruggiero, who boasts repeatedly of having "clipped" 26 guys, yet is always passed over for promotions within the "family."
It is a lingo that has little in common with either the slow, precise enunciation of the Highlander or the clipped phraseology of Sir Noël Coward.