What is "scissored"

Usage examples of "scissored".

There was a paragraph dealing with his voluntary internment in a terrorist compound where he nearly lost his life, but where he learned the names he had to know in order to trace the men behind the Palestinian fanatics at the embassy, specifically one name—name scissored out, a black space in the copy.

The sucking larval jaws now scissored quite close to him from either side.

Elsewhere the warty titans were scissored to a spew of green tissue by juggernaut jaws.

His complexion had always been high, ruddy, full-blooded, and against this was set the shocking whiteness of his hair, brushed so trim, scissored so immaculately at all times at the back and sides of the head, the way young men wear theirs.

For a moment Shawn thought they were contemplating a flight from the house itself, and he scissored hastily up the steps toward them, arms half extended ready to bar their way and shepherd them back inside again.

Sokolsky scissored his legs over the corpse, planted one on the outside of it.

There was a paragraph dealing with his voluntary internment in a terrorist compound where he nearly lost his life, but where he learned the names he had to know in order to trace the men behind the Palestinian fanatics at the embassy, specifically one name-name scissored out, a black space in the copy.

That pivotal man was shot-details scissored out, a black paragraph and Evan Kendrick, representative from the ninth district of Colorado, was returned under protective cover to the United States.

Loring reached into his briefcase and withdrew the scissored page of filthy stationery.

In a single motion he scissored his legs and propped his white high-top Air Jordans on the coffee table.

Stratton scissored off the bed to watch the evening rush hour flow past a hundred feet below.

She had changed into a beige shirtwaist dress, a fetching advertisement for her long, bronzed legs that scissored with a rustle of unseen silk as she expertly maneuvered the car into bike-laden streets.

Every man cast a tremendously long and attenuated shadow, either high on the tent's roof or from his feet across the lot into the far distance where the shadow was absorbed into the night, and when he walked the long shadows of his legs scissored like an immense, black, insubstantial pair of shears trying to trim the lamplit weeds off the lot.

She had a pink band holding back her cascade of corn-silk hair, and a scandalously tight, low-cut pink bodice, but her full skirt was all of clover leaves—four-leaf clovers individually scissored from green baize, bunched and stitched so close together that the girl looked like a woods nymph emerging from a bank of real clover.

The air-cushion cargo pallet rose to meet the section of shell that scissored down with cargo.