How to Use clipper in a Sentence

clipper

noun
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  • The page highlights that Jose was a talented artist, known for his skill in drawing, tattooing, and even working behind the clippers as a barber.
    — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In time, hair clippers and binders would do the work of her gaze.
    — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Your stylist will have to break out the clippers for this one.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 1 Sep. 2017
  • On the season, 13 Clippers have been thrown out at the plate.
    — Branson Wright, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
  • Dieuguez snuck her a pair of old clippers and trained her as a dog groomer.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • From the onset, Riri is sitting at the edge of the bed with some hair clippers in hand.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Not sure what kind of clipper or grinder will work best on your dog?
    — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Use clippers or scissors to cut the tomato off the plant above the bumpy part of the stem to avoid ripping the skin.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That's because the storm, which is known as a clipper, will move through the area very quickly.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The King Phillip, a clipper ship that wrecked just off Ocean Beach in 1878, can be spotted by land.
    — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • After using the clippers, Saraceno switched to shears to fine tune the cut.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Mandel tried his best with the clippers to no avail.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Someone had climbed the telephone pole, with a pair of wire clippers, and cut all four telephone wires to the house.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 29 July 2019
  • The clipper itself has five adjustable functions for the comb from 0.8mm to 2.0mm.
    — Tim Kohut, BGR, 17 May 2021
  • The Jazz beat the Clippers and will face the Warriors in the conference semifinals.
    — Paul Doyle, courant.com, 1 May 2017
  • But my curls have never looked better, so for now, the clippers will stay in the drawer.
    — WIRED, 19 June 2023
  • Today's clipper arrives with a light mix of rain and wet snow mixed in, with the best chance of a few slushy lawns and fields north of the Twin Cities.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The Clippers have four new players who were not on the roster last season.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Now, with the emergence of this fun and youthful basketball team in Tuscaloosa, his clipper work is part of the show.
    — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • But don’t just impulse-buy a $20 set of clippers on Amazon.
    — Aaron Stern, WSJ, 21 May 2020
  • You precision trim the path and drive edges with a toenail clipper.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2021
  • With the tea race, the core technology itself—the clipper ship—was short-lived.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the poor Mbare area, a barber used humming clippers to give haircuts to a steady stream of customers.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Within a decade, the clippers had been largely eclipsed by steamships in global trade.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The shingles were cut from cardboard with a nail clipper and glued with a mixture of floor wax and nondairy creamer.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Acord notes that a razor (versus sheers or a clipper), will allow your stylist to make sure the hair sits just right.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Not just the postman and the barber, but also the aspiring belly dancer, the night clipper, the cat looser, and all the rest.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • The latest round of U.N. sanctions bans the supply of metal items, so that explains the clipper holdup.
    — Matthew Pennington, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Nail grinders are also perfect for dogs with thick or dark nails that can be hard to trim with nail clippers.
    — Lauren Corona, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And others—such as vomit bags, facial wipes, nail clippers and earplugs—are less glamorous.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024

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