Example sentences for: cropped

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

  • It's the hair of the enemy that marks him as such, as with the flowing tresses of royalist Cavaliers (effete tyrants) and the cropped hair of parliamentary Roundheads (crude thugs) during the English Civil War.

  • An obituary in the New York Times used the word cold three times, and for good measure added chilly , icy , bleak , and grim . Kubrick the Cold is a cliché that cropped up in the columns of Pauline Kael and now serves as a comfy sofa for those who don't want to deal with Kubrick's ambition.

  • Pants were an old story, and they were no longer strictly male; but the 1960s short-tunic-and-tights costume, especially when worn with high boots, cropped hair, and a hip-level belt, seemed to put girls into the clothes of Renaissance youths, so they looked like Carpaccio dandies or Ghirlandaio toughs.

  • “…the disease has cropped up in new places, and those are states that have political clout.”

  • Instead, I want to ask a related question, one that is central to this whole affair but has been almost entirely ignored in the dozens of op-ed pieces that have cropped up over the past couple of weeks.


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