Eliminating from a text

Usage examples of scissoring.

Above all, the stringless kites, the warplane nightmare pterodactyls, scissoring the mists, kettle-drumming the winds, flirting and shuttering like ugly fans, like books of horror, in the always-murdered and so always-drying crimson sky.

Queueing at the snack stall with all the other weight problems and skin conditions, among the multiple single mothers in crayon-color beachwear, the splat and splotch of English skin, beneath treated hair, and all the sticky children each needing its tin of drink, Richard watched the joggers pounding the outer track in scissoring shellsuits of magenta, turquoise, of lime or sherwood green.

On occasion, dissatisfied with the work of the local barbers, Clara had barbered him, sitting him down on the steps behind the store and scissoring away until she had him looking the way she wanted him to look, a process that took much squinting and inspecting.

Rooflines, ornamental chimney pots, the odd high window box stuffed with dark winter pansies, and pigeons swooping and scissoring like lords of the sky.

He dropped the rifle and went into a first baseman's stretch, scissoring himself into a split and reaching out with an imaginary mitt to snag the equally imaginary ball.

Toric turned, eyes glinting narrowly with his fury, and made a scissoring motion with his hands.