She moved with a quick, efficient scissoring of muscled legs.

He himself was the first to step into the basket, with a somewhat cautious scissoring of his long legs.

This presents itself as tremors and scissoring of the limbs.

In the clean and jerk, the bar is brought first to the shoulders, then propelled over the head with an explosive scissoring of the legs.

Consider the dapper scissoring of one scene into the next and ask yourself about the rhythm of this couple's life.

Feathertop watched the smooth scissoring of her slim, trim legs as she walked to the bales.

The runner stone spins above the stationary bedstone creating the "scissoring" or grinding action of the stones.

The centipede saw her coming and wheeled toward her, the gaps in its armor where she hoped to attack scissoring shut.

Today, a male executive's haircut often begins with a salon shampoo and conditioning, progresses through careful scissoring, to end with blow-dry styling.

It takes a few moments for the viewer to realize that the tripanel mirror has splintered her reflection into a subtle scissoring of legs, hair and elbows.

In 2010, she was ranked as 32nd in the Complexs list of "hottest" women in video games, being also featured in GamesRadar's female editor's list of "ladies worth scissoring".

But some of the ghost's gestures did seem to be on the verge of making sense, if you understood them as pantomime--the curled hand with two fingers extended downward scissoring could indicate somebody walking.

Ralph dropped his reins onto the gelding's neck, and the horse responded instantly by plunging to a dead stop and freezing for the shot, only the scissoring of his ears betraying his agitation.

For a so-called backhand slap-shot, the wind-up is awkward at best, requiring either a scissoring of the hands resulting in a golf-like "chip," or rotation of the shoulders with the arms and wrists moving very little.

But if it made a sound it would be the scissoring and gnashing of a skater's blades against hard gray ice, or the screech of upcountry snow when you walk across it in the blue light of afternoon.

We think of our hearts as protected within a sturdy cage of ribs, yet all it takes is the squeeze of a handle, the scissoring of blades, and one by one, the ribs surrender to tempered steel.

For example, (right-handed) scissors are arranged so that the scissoring or shearing action how the blades work together (how they are attached at the pivot) operates correctly for a right-hander, but a left-hander will tend to force the blades apart rather than shearing the target substance.

Hard hands gripped him by the elbows and knees, he was lifted from the pew, and he was carried in that prone position across the chancel and nave, head drooping, eyes Wearily watching the movement of the stone floor beneath him and the scissoring of legs all around.