WordNet
n. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting]
Usage examples of "newspaper clipping".
He reached into his shirt pocket and unfolded the newspaper clipping.
Another strand of her hair was found on a shirt in Gilchrist's closet He also had several red marking pens whose ink matched those on the newspaper clipping he had left for Corde the morning after Jennie's murder and on the back of the threatening Polaroids.
From among the letters in an old folder, a newspaper clipping fluttered to the floor.
Blue Valley became a ghost town, one of the ugliest on earth, with not a single feature to redeem it, and Spade Larkin was forced to turn his back on the grandeur he had uncovered and drift along the streets of Denver, telling newcomers that he was the man, yessiree, he was the man that found Blue Valley, and for a beer he would explain how a newspaper clipping, a little clipping from a St.
Sethe could recognize only seventy-five printed words (half of which appeared in the newspaper clipping), but she knew that the words she did not understand hadn't any more power than she had to explain.
He opened and smoothed the newspaper clipping then pushed it halfway to her, stepping back like a retriever that had just deposited a shot quail at a hunter's foot.
As he rolled over on his side she reread the old newspaper clipping.
When I opened the card, a newspaper clipping fell out onto the present she'd sent me.
In his hand, stroked by his puckered thumb, the newspaper clipping first rustled and then wilted and drooped, but the fortune teller knew it by heart anyway.
There was no doubt in my mind that the man in the newspaper clipping from Jake's room and this man smiling genially while he waited for me at the table were one and the same.
Apprehensively he lifted the folded newspaper clipping from Garcia’.
Apprehensively he lifted the folded newspaper clipping from Garcia's brown paw.
Then Reverend Ogarth had sent Mirelle the newspaper clipping and a personal note.