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Example sentences for: clipped

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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.
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."
So I clipped all the articles about Korea in the three daily newspapers that had accumulated in my apartment over 10 days, and I read them.
Harder to recognize are certain distortions imposed on the bodies of first names when they are clipped down to nicknames.
With the written language, this is orthographically facilitated by the various processes of word shortening--acronyms ( ZIP for Zone Improvement Plan ), contractions ( won't for will not ), clipped words ( deli for delicatessen ) and abbreviations ( lb.