Example sentences for: clippings

How can you use “clippings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was such adoration that defined his hobby, which consisted in rummaging expeditions in search of memorabilia in which the ballerinas and actresses of his distant passions were present, as the loved one is fetishistically present in scraps and ribbons, snapshots and locks of hair, faded clippings and yellowing dance cards.

  • After several days of indoctrination that included a barrage of news clippings and television documentaries, Nashiri left Afghanistan, first returning to his native Saudi Arabia and then visiting his home in Yemen.

  • Limpert doesn't say in the clippings how he arrived at his hypothesis, but in his cover note to Chatterbox, Limpert explained, "the source for the pieces was Frank Waldrop, who was absolutely wired to the FBI."

  • He had taken to scissoring out clippings from newspapers (when his secretary wasn't in the room), and tossing them into his briefcase.

  • Darger collected clippings on the subject of little girls, murdered and otherwise, and went on to write and illustrate a truly amazing, Scheherazadean 15,145-page epic about seven cute prepubescent sisters being tortured by brutish men who like to capture little girls in order to enslave them and torture them and take their clothes off.


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