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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scissor.

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Examples

  • Without even thinking about it, she scissored her legs around his waist.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • They scissored their legs into full splits, pretzeled themselves into cross-legged positions and dangled by their arms, their bodies whirling like ceiling fan blades.

    Cirque du Soleil's Stunt Woman in Chief Alexandra Alter 2011

  • These old advertisements were scissored out of the programs before they went to the local TV stations.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • Without even thinking about it, she scissored her legs around his waist.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A scissored article slipped from her hands and floated to the floor — and there he was, grinning at me in monochrome, as striking as ever in the only memento his daddy had left behind after driving off with the other Other Woman: A grey-on-black pinstriped suit, swinging from a coat hanger in the hallway closet.

    "Goddamned" Gage 2011

  • She scissored out the necessary pieces and fixed them to the backing, growing less satisfied by the minute.

    Deer Collage Carol Reid 2011

  • Without even thinking about it, she scissored her legs around his waist.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Without even thinking about it, she scissored her legs around his waist.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Her appearances in movie musicals were often scissored from the final cut when the films ran at theaters in the segregated South.

    Lena Horne, Electrifying Singer, Dies 2010

  • Then he scissored them back into his chest as he regaled them with details of stealing reams of paper and typewriter ribbons from his first office job.

    Confessional Marc Nash 2010

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