Example sentences for: cropped

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

  • But Japan represented something new for van Gogh, not the jaggedly cropped edges and off-kilter points of view that attracted Degas and Cassatt but rather an imaginary world of nature worship; available women; and flat, shadowless color.

  • In Untitled III (1981), a scattering of snail-shaped blue brush strokes have been cropped and re-contoured.

  • Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.

  • 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.

  • ) There cropped up, here and there, objections to the use of black to describe things other than good and pure, and Black is beautiful became the catchword of the day.


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