Example sentences for: scissors

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

  • An eight- or twelve-inch pair of scissors is an unwieldy instrument, difficult to guide within the 1/32th of an inch of the pattern outline.

  • There is nothing hilarious or mirthful, however, about the Yiddish Guide . To the very contrary: it brings forth a deep sense of sadness because what was supposed to be a serious attempt at facilitating the Census count, a sort of “first aid” assistance in answering the Census Form, looks like the work of a child who took several pages from a Yiddish book, cut them up with his plastic scissors into tiny pieces of various shapes and sizes and then playfully pasted them together.

  • What Debate Shows Do When There's No Debate: On The McLaughlin Group , Pat Buchanan enjoys a furiously heated nonargument with Mort Kondracke, which reminds Pundit Central of Alfred Marshall's question about which blade of a scissors does the cutting.

  • We know that nowadays, photographs can be digitally manipulated with ease; in the era in question, they were manipulated crudely and grotesquely, using scissors, ink, and airbrushes.

  • The graphic dissolves to a world map, and a hand appears to grasp a pair of scissors.


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