scissored

past tense of scissor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scissored
Verb
  • Rather than simply folding them in whole or sliced in half, Kardea recommends roasting red grapes.
    Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Sogard sliced a base hit to center and took advantage of Judge’s arm, speeding to second on what should have been a single.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Someone slit Skull's throat and bashed him over the head.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When Rochelle Luna, 18, arrived at the house hours later, Djerf bound, gagged and raped her before stabbing her and slitting her throat, court records said.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Doctors soon found that the on-field hits had sheared a blood vessel in Bledsoe's chest, which was rapidly filling his body with blood.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The $1,850 scarves start with 400 grams of raw cashmere sheared from the undercoat of high-altitude hircus goats.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The media and entertainment conglomerate's stock notched gains as Paramount Global slashed its workforce more than 3% this summer and made other moves to restructure its struggling broadcast business.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • If 2024 is any indication, coveted clothing and accessories from TikTok-popular brands will be majorly slashed in price (sometimes by as much as over 50 percent off).
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the fourth quarter, Seguin’s defense forced another turnover when Micah Bolden ripped the ball away from a Wolves player and returned it to midfield.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Its approach to comedy is ripped straight from the world of musical cast parties and improv shows, with every performer doing their best to turn every line into a GIF-able burst of wholesome self-deprecation.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is, excluding a lopsided Week 2 win over the lowly Browns, the defense is getting gashed.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • They were gashed through the air by an opposing quarterback for whom on-target passes are a career rarity.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Cleveland was mostly splitting its DH at-bats between Manzardo and David Fry … whose September pop came on an accidental Tarik Skubal fastball to his nose.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The acquisition announcement comes as MSNBC prepares to split from NBC as part of parent company Comcast’s move to spin off its cable properties into a separate company, to be called Versant.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Scissored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scissored. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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