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How to use scissors in a sentence

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To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors.
Remove abalone from shells and use scissors to trim the dark apron around each piece.
There's a paper jam, and she's got some scissors that you can actually see there on the counter, and she's trying to fix the paper jam.
I inadvertently managed to carry a small pair of scissors through the X-Ray machine at San Francisco airport in a washbag as hand luggage.
Carefully separate lettuce leaves and trim with scissors to form neat cups.
The neatest tat I've seen was on a Frenchman's wrist, a smallish cut-along-dotted-line drawing, complete with tiny scissors.
So I finally got my sharp arts-and-crafts scissors and whacked a good few inches off, and now it comes to just below my chin.
Not one notebook, pen, eraser, glue stick, scissors, or white-out remained.
The kit contains a chef's knife, a serrated knife, a thin long knife for slicing meat, a boning knife, a paring knife, and a pair of scissors.
There are dozens of websites offering everything from left-handed bread-knives to scissors and writing pads.
Snip chives into little pieces using scissors or mince them on a cutting board with a sharp knife.
Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the scuffing of the barber's shoes on the lino and the snap of his scissors.
I mean, they're confiscating nail clippers and cuticle scissors and all of these things, and basically rousting people at the security gates.
For years, instead of paintbrushes, Mendez used tools like rubber cement, scissors or a comb to craft his work for his employer.
Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly.
After half a century of haircutting, an Amesbury salon owner has decided to hang up his scissors and call it a day.
When his knees were stiff with cold, he stepped into a saloon and drank a glass of whiskey, then at a general store purchased a pair of scissors.
Jenna used scissors to cut the cord and at the same time we rang for an ambulance and they talked us through what to do until they arrived.
She found a pair of scissors and attacked plain brown paper sealed with transparent tape.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The first stamps were imperforate, necessitating the use of scissors or other instrument in separating them.
Mrs. Amory had in the meantime hastened home and returned with a roll of diachylon plaster and a pair of small scissors.
Excessive connective-tissue growth, exceptionally met with, is to be treated by ablation with the scissors or knife.
A pocket case of instruments containing scissors, knife, dressing forceps, etc.
The girl was trying to loosen the door hinges with the points of her scissors.
It seems then as if the symbolist were splitting a hair with embroidery scissors.
Mistress of her scissors and needles, which are pointless and edgeless to her art!
The warts should be clipped off with sharp scissors and their roots burned with a solid pencil of lunar caustic.
Only the long-legged Michigander kept his hold, and he looked like a pair of extended scissors.
If the players do not know the game, they will cross and uncross the scissors in an attempt to pass them correctly.
She flung down the skirt that she was helping to unpick and let the scissors fall to the ground.
Mother boxed his ears, and then she and Sue sat down and worked all the morning trying to unsew the things with the scissors.
What if she perforate her big India-rubber ball with the points of the scissors?
Opening the bag, he produced bandages, adhesive tape, a pair of surgical scissors and a large tube of salve.
The pockets were entirely empty, except for a small pair of nail scissors, and there was no watch upon the body, nor a ring.
She whipped off her small hat and went over to the dressing table where she picked up a pair of nail scissors.
As they went back through the study he stopped by the table and picked up a small pair of nail scissors.
She took a nail scissors, clipped out the 'My God' and showed the rest of the letter all over school.
This accomplished, with a pair of scissors the fibrinous tumors were snipped off.
The other day we were shown a huge pair of rusty scissors whilst staying in breconshire.
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