How to Use clipping in a Sentence

clipping

noun

• Don’t use lawn clippings if the lawn was mowed when weeds were in seed.
  — OregonLive.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Nathan then had to sort through years and years of files, clippings, boxes of letters.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• Mulch them with compost and grass clippings or alfalfa meal.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Use the clippings as mulch around your shrubs and perennials or put them into the compost pile.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 21 Feb. 2018
• If the deck has a hose attachment, use that and run the water and turn on the lawn mower to help remove excess clippings.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
• The boy's father came to the school and shot the headmaster to death, according to the newspaper clipping.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The 2009 manzanita and its clippings cannot reproduce on their own.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• The clippings from the 1947 manzanitas cannot reproduce on their own, either.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Zane rarely comments about his clipping from the Voice of the West.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• All the mowers in the test mulch (discharge the clippings into the grass) and bag.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
• The arborists are now in the midst of a monthslong process to grow new roots from the clippings.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• The mulching plug forces the clippings to stay in the cutting chamber to get finely chopped.
  — Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
• Keep the area around your home free from debris, such as leaf piles, mulch, and grass clippings.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2024
• In one position, the door is open and clippings flow into the bag.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
• The pet owner will decide what kind of urn, clay or ink paw prints or fur clippings the choose.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2024
• Next, use a putty knife to scrape loose any caked-on grass clippings from the underside of the deck.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
• Dog grooming, for instance, no longer means a flea bath and a clipping.
  — Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• Large glass bulbs, now containing clippings of a pothos plant, hang here and there.
  — Annie Correal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• The latch for the collection bag often gets clogged with clippings.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• Most mulching mowers will come with a bag that gives you the option to collect grass clippings.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Maybe the clipping was happening at only the first gain stage.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2023
• The Sun Joe comes with a 13.2-gallon grass bag to collect clippings to prevent thick thatch build-up.
  — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
• Use light layers of clippings so water and air can reach plant roots.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 14 June 2019
• Franklin Park residents whose grass clippings end up in the street may get a lot more than a slap on the wrist this summer.
  — Anna Bybee-Schier, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Dispose of all clippings, leaves and petals around the base of the plant to get rid of dormant spores of fungi and over-wintering pests.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Jughead then takes a look at his wall of article clippings and has an epiphany.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 10 May 2018
• Mow lawns frequently but don't catch the clippings. 19.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
• Adams was in charge of feeding the cows bushels of cured, baled alfalfa, which were wrapped in wire mesh and required clipping.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Do not dispose of grass clippings or leaves in or near a waterway.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2023
• Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024