Pace or pare

Usage examples of clip.

Then again, maybe the clip embodies an absurdist view of life that he kept hidden from his peers, most of whom perceived him to have the famished appetites and clouded sensibility of a creature in a shooter game.

The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.

Kalashnikov is in my hand, the gun heavy with a full clip of antipersonnel rounds.

The antistatic wire still hung from his wrist but its crocodile clip no longer clasped anything.

Ares Special Service automatics, medium autos with silencers and extended fourteen-round clips.

Now, in my opinion, this can only be a preparation for a take-over of Battersea, an erosion of our freedom, a new and subtle kind of slavery and a clipping of ears.

Oh, and I also have a beadwork clip and a bag of earrings I was hoping to sell.

Troop Guide Bikaner had secretly clipped bits of hair from three of the court animals.

Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.

As another Blackshirt spread a dingy tablecloth across the floor by the chair I was tied to, the one with the bag drew out a thin length of rubber tubing with what appeared to be flanged steel needles at either end, and some metal clips.

Even her jewelry, each piece of it, evoked a sense of its owner: heavy gold and diamond earrings so oversized she had to un clip them to talk on the telephone, and a pin fashioned to resemble a boutonniere, set with a stone an inch or two in diameter--as big as an actual flower--a sort of boldness that nobody else could carry off.

Dropping his sword, he used his freed right hand to unsnap the clip, then tore the buttstock from her weakened grip and hurled it beyond her reach.

Aenea once told me that there used to be fixed carbon-carbon lines running the length of the slideway, and the sledders had clipped on to them much as we would a cableway or rappel line, using a special low-friction clip ring similar to the cable pulley to keep from losing speed.

Here is an interesting clip made by a cameraperson who was in a helicopter over Changsha at the time it was destroyed.

He then surprised Jim by retrieving and inspecting his tether cord, sliding his hand up to the end, and clipping the carabiner back on the guide wire again.