His carefully clipped beard is almost as gray as his turtleneck.

The lawn had to be mowed neatly, the weeds pulled by hand, the sides edged, the area around the sprinklers carefully clipped.

There were, I could see clearly, twigs sticking out from the carefully clipped trees, so they were no longer perfectly symmetrical.

Even if nature in this case is mostly carefully clipped boxwood hedges, the sky and the skyline are still there.

The hand that holds the curtain aside is smooth and white with carefully clipped fingernails.

But the flavor of the fine leaves, when carefully clipped, is remarkable.

Most of the dark down had been carefully clipped.

The clothes were a prop and according to his club mates the money was made of carefully clipped strips of newspaper.

Even that patch of carefully clipped grass looked venerable; certainly I never saw anyone step on it.

News clippings, now yellowed with age, had been clipped and pasted carefully in the scrap-book.