Example sentences for: clippings

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

  • If amusing but ultimately unusable newspaper clippings are the dust bunnies of a free-lance humorist's living room, then the News Quiz Spring Cleaning Extra is the rug under which to sweep them.

  • 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.

  • And there are his mementos of Richard Nixon, his White House cufflinks, photos of Camp David, certificates and honorary degrees, and clippings of great events of state.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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