CLIP in a Sentence
Learn CLIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
40 example sentences for CLIP, such as:
1. I've seen a clip from the film.
2. They clip nearly two seconds off the world record.
3. He clipped the edge of the kerb with his front tyre.
4. He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
5. He was looking through a pile of old newspaper clippings.
2. They clip nearly two seconds off the world record.
3. He clipped the edge of the kerb with his front tyre.
4. He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
5. He was looking through a pile of old newspaper clippings.
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Meanings and Examples of CLIP
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clip
n. small section of filmed or filed material
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.
2 He'd got a start, and she never checked him up, just set and stared and stared, and let him clip along, and I see it warn't no use for me to put in.
3 We were out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break the ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up vines and clip the hedges.
4 The great silver buckle of her belt seemed to depress the centre of her body, catching the light stuff of her white blouse like a clip.
5 They, turning their eyes towards the sunrising, scatter salted corn from their hands and clip the beasts with steel over the temples, and pour cups on the altars.
6 When she had passed through the shrubbery gate she found herself in great gardens, with wide lawns and winding walks with clipped borders.
7 There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst.
8 The rest of it had been clipped and made to look neat, but at this lower end of the walk it had not been trimmed at all.
9 I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.
10 His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
11 Her voice was cool and her words were more close clipped than usual.
12 So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.
13 He wore a funny long gingham apron, like a smock, over his trousers, and his hair was clipped so short that his head looked white and naked.
14 Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock.
15 The whole front was draped in ivy, with a patch clipped bare here and there where a window or a coat of arms broke through the dark veil.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 Phil's job at Fox Sports involved selecting the most important clip of the day's sporting highlights for later broadcast.
2 They really want to get you out of there by dark, too, so the intermission is short and the pacing moves along at a really good clip.
3 They clip nearly two seconds off the world record.
4 China continues to urbanize at a fast clip, with hundreds of thousands of new residents flooding into the cities each year.
5 The 6-second clip shows a young woman answering a question from someone off-camera after taking a drag off what appears to be a cigarette.
6 The audio clip of the exchange between the control tower and pilot of the doomed flight was confirmed by Taiwan's Civil Aeronautical Administration as rescue workers continued searching for 11 missing passengers Thursday.
7 I've seen a clip from the film.
8 He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
9 He clipped the edge of the kerb with his front tyre.
10 Kids in his neighborhood clipped his picture from the newspaper and carried it around.
11 He spoke in the clipped, clinical monotones typical of police testimony in court.
12 The book is a modern epistolary novel that uses letters, telegrams, and newspaper clippings to tell the hero's story.
13 In one early montage, Beauchamp brought together pictures of broken newspaper clippings about the Vietnam War.
14 He was looking through a pile of old newspaper clippings.
15 So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.