Example Sentences

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Using a tenaculum, a scissor-like surgical tool, the physician steadies the cervix.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2024

A few years ago, Dr. Segerman demonstrated Extensors: a construction kit for making extending mechanisms from scissor-like hinged parts.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Four sat stubbornly on the pathway I wanted to move along, their icy-blue eyes pitiless and their long, white necks stretched toward me, threatening with their scissor-like bills.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

Then he gives a more revealing explanation: “They’re an animal of duality. They’re adorable but they terrify me at the same time. And they got those scissor-like ears that creep me out.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2019

He would have liked to keep that too, but he was afraid of making the crab angry and of being pinched by his sharp scissor-like claws.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by Ozaki, Yei Theodora