scissoring in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The left foot remains on the ice throughout, and the power derives from the scissoring motion of the legs.
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One method is called scissoring, used for business air travel when return tickets are cheaper with a weekend between, assuming that tourists, not business people, travel like that.
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Scissoring branches and hours is too simplistic.
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The music cut the cobwebs, dispersed the dust, sharp, sunken, scissoring, serious.
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The impression is of restlessly arcing, scissoring, tangling pale limbs.
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This presents itself as tremors and scissoring of the limbs.
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This up-down/up movement of the legs can best be described as a scissoring action.
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The wrestler then falls downwards while still scissoring his legs around the opponent's waist and pushes himself by hitting his palms against the canvas.
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His hands have arthritis from the accumulated scissoring and combing.
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The wrestler sits on either side of an opponent who is lying either prone or supine on the mat, with the wrestler's legs scissoring one of the opponent's arms.
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