Example Sentences

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You can’t yell cut and hope that the editor will splice multiple performances together to make something that works.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2017

Researchers will splice a herpes simplex gene into a mouse-leukemia virus that has been rendered harmless by genetic engineering, and insert the altered virus directly into the brain tumor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boy and I will splice them when we are home.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Now set to work to get some of the sail off both craft, and then, when we have got things snug, we will splice the main brace and have a meal.'

From When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Casting his head round, Maurice notices the Gallows hard by: "There, see you, are a few short ladders: MES ENFANS, bring me these, and we will splice with rope!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Carlyle, Thomas