Scissored

Without even thinking about it, she scissored her legs around his waist. ❋ 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. ❋ Alexandra Alter (2011)

These old advertisements were scissored out of the programs before they went to the local TV stations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Gage (2011)

She scissored out the necessary pieces and fixed them to the backing, growing less satisfied by the minute. ❋ Carol Reid (2011)

She saw herself as an aristocrat and looked down on the nouveau riche as trying too hard with their pricey blunt cuts or exquisitely scissored layers. ❋ Susan Isaacs (2010)

Her appearances in movie musicals were often scissored from the final cut when the films ran at theaters in the segregated South. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I had this sudden very strong idea that if I walked into the room next to this room where the fire was burning away and my hot dinner laid on the table, there I should find what I really wanted, and now it all tied up, that picture scissored out of the gazetta and meeting old Pete like that. ❋ John Myles Aavedal (2010)

She shoved her hand farther down the drain until she heard a small click and her fingers scissored around the barrette, dragging it back up into the light. ❋ Amber Benson (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. ❋ Marc Nash (2010)

I couldn't explain how it had got there, brothers, but it was a photograph I had scissored out of the old gazetta and it was of a baby. ❋ John Myles Aavedal (2010)

She ignored him and dug into the hole with her forefinger, hissing as fresh pain scissored through her muscles. ❋ Yvonne Navarro (2010)

My sheets were flung across the bed, sticky under my scissored legs. ❋ Leslie Jamison (2010)