How to Use clipper in a Sentence

clipper

noun
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  • Here's to his smooth, cool neck after clippers and baby powder.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • From the onset, Riri is sitting at the edge of the bed with some hair clippers in hand.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • If everything works, the clipper could arrive within two years of launch.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
  • At one point, Verdone Gorsegner even let her daughter hold the clippers.
    — Rose Minutaglio, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Coupon-clippers across the country gave the stock a good kicking yesterday, sending it down 6.3%.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • New Englanders will also see at least some clear sky Thursday night as the clipper exits stage left.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Her husband, Jonathan Acosta, was cutting the hair of a 9-year-old with rechargeable electric clippers.
    — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Instead of tying off her hair into a ponytail and cutting that off first, Torres used clippers to sleekly buzz off almost a foot of hair.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Must-have grooming products: 18.21 Man Made hair paste, beard trimmer and nail clippers.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The clipper has limited moisture that is slowly moving into the NW corner of the state.
    — Fox 61 Weather Team, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In a particularly compelling detail shot, a crucifix shares mug-space with toothbrushes and clippers, a thimble and thread with other detritus of day-to-day life.
    — Agatha French, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • In time, hair clippers and binders would do the work of her gaze.
    — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Dieuguez snuck her a pair of old clippers and trained her as a dog groomer.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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