What is "clippings"

Usage examples of "clippings".

Israel clipped her Messianic promises and lived upon the clippings instead of upon the coin.

The walls were covered with yellowed clippings from the local paper, angling competitions, soap box derbies.

I spent the afternoons with her scrapbooks, with their clippings about teas and the visiting Fabians, and the explorers with their magic lantern shows and their accounts of quaint native customs.

He wanted to work at a single project instead of half a dozen, to pick a direction and stick with it, but so far writing had earned him nothing, and the spectre of hitting forty in a ratty cardigan and a damp flat surrounded by thousands of press clippings filled him with depression.

Masters was rooting about in the attic looking for his notes and clippings, the phone rang again downstairs.

Etan was able to piece much of the story together from the clippings files.

Later that morning, after a detour to the Der Bund office to pick up a bulky file stuffed with press clippings, notes, and photographs, Fitzduane found himself trailing behind the apparently supercharged Bear as the detective hummed his way through the portals, halls, rooms, corridors, and miscellaneous annexes of the City of Bern art museum.