Clipper is an English word with synonyms like limiter or scissors. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Clipper in a sentence
Related words
Clipper meaning
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- Something that moves swiftly; especially:
Synonyms of Clipper
Using Clipper
- The main meaning on this page is: Anything or anyone that clips. | A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails. | Something that moves swiftly; especially:
- Useful related words include: limiter, scissors, shears, sailing ship.
- In the example corpus, clipper often appears in combinations such as: the clipper, europa clipper, clipper ship.
Context around Clipper
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clipper
- In this selection, "clipper" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, europa, cards, opium, ship, ships and opium stand out and add context to how "clipper" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nail clipper or nail and a toenail clipper for your. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clipper" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clipper
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
China Clipper calling Alameda. (4 words)
Europa Clipper is a big spacecraft. (6 words)
He coached for The Bath Clipper Soccer Club. (8 words)
Let's say if we have moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, you're more likely to have higher snowfall rates in that situation than you would per se in let's say a clipper where that moisture isn't really available in that area. (47 words)
Clipper ship sailing cards Clipper ship sailing card for the "Free Trade", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper ship sailing cards. (39 words)
Origin and usage of "clipper" "Opium clipper" Water Witch, a British ship built in 1831 The term "clipper" most likely derives from the verb "clip", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Clipper ship sailing cards Clipper ship sailing card for the "Free Trade", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper ship sailing cards.
Origin and usage of "clipper" "Opium clipper" Water Witch, a British ship built in 1831 The term "clipper" most likely derives from the verb "clip", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.
Use a nail clipper or nail scissors for your fingernails and a toenail clipper for your toenails.
There is no single definition of the characteristics of a clipper ship, but mariner and author Alan Villiers describes them as follows: To sailors, three things made a ship a clipper.
Clipper will need to become more profitable, decrease its leverage, start expanding in more markets, and commit to increasing its dividend before it's worthy of another look.
Daddy sailed across the pacific on the clipper and won their league of the race.
He coached for The Bath Clipper Soccer Club.
Many of the programs and services that run on startup may be familiar to you, like OneDrive or Evernote Clipper.
On another shorthanded Sunday in Clipper Nation, the locals embraced good news where they could find it.
OneNote offers a browser add-on for Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Firefox called the OneNote Web Clipper.
One proposal included a pier and clipper ferry stop jutting out into the Thames, with the ferries due to use it potentially making it difficult for other river-users to continue with their activities.
Those struggles delighted Clipper haters and also those who are sick of the current state of sports in which athletes have more control than ever before.
Two security personnel came on court while former Clipper DeAndre Jordan appeared to encourage an agitated Westbrook to move away from the situation.
China Clipper calling Alameda.
Europa Clipper is a big spacecraft.
Europa Clipper is seen in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, before the start of thermal vacuum testing.
In 1853, a 240-ton “schooner clipper” was built by Eben Turner and business partner Steven Harris at the Turner Shipyard along the South Portland waterfront.
In 2017, the Danish shipping companies Ultrabulk and Clipper were caught in a when it emerged that the shipping companies were shipping cargo from occupied Western Sahara.
Let's say if we have moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, you're more likely to have higher snowfall rates in that situation than you would per se in let's say a clipper where that moisture isn't really available in that area.
Right now Harden is content enough to talk about finishing his career as a Clipper (though seeing will be believing).
Common combinations with clipper
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the clipper 13×
- europa clipper 11×
- clipper ship 10×
- clipper ships 5×
- clipper is 5×
- clipper card 4×
- of clipper 3×
- opium clipper 3×
- clipper or 3×
- clipper and 3×