CLIPPING


Meaning of CLIPPING in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a newspaper clipping/cutting (= a story cut out of a newspaper )

I found some old newspaper cuttings of the band's first concert in Liverpool.

grass clippings/cuttings (= pieces of cut grass )

You can use your grass clippings to start your own compost pile.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

newspaper

Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk, along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests.

And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?

But remember those old newspaper clippings mentioning that he'd been hanged by the Home Office's principal Official Executioner?

Eli showed him newspaper clippings , photos of bodies that had been ground under tank treads.

His pocketed stash of newspaper clippings apparently fuelled vivid conversations.

She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.

It is filled with newspaper clippings of championships, trophies and pictures of a younger Impastato, hair as black as ink.

Bill Maher hoists a fat folder filled with newspaper clippings on to a virtually empty desk in his new Los Angeles office.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Grass clippings can be recycled to make fertilizer.

On the wall were a few press clippings of the trial.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?

I still have the news clippings from that, arguments, accusations of censorship.

Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.

Some make hillocks thirty feet across, while others are happy with mounds of grass clippings.

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