snick
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Haseeb Hameed's thin snick, Jack Leach bowled shouldering arms, Jonny Bairstow pinned lbw, Joe Root's edged drive, Mark Wood taken in the follow-through and Ollie Robinson snaffled at third slip.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
It snaps on the back of a caseless iPhone with a satisfying snick.
From The Verge ● Jul. 23, 2021
It crunches around in the glass, and you can hear its eyes snick in their sockets as it anxiously looks all around your small apartment.
From Slate ● May 30, 2020
He threw everything at a full ball slanted across him that didn't swing back in, but it was just too wide and he could only snick it through to Akmal.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
One was the splash of something heavy falling into the water; the other was a noise like the snick of a lock when a door quietly closes fast.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
They're fluffy and cakey without being too fluffy or too cakey like some snicks.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
I love the way a makeup compact snicks shut or how a luxury car door closes with a kind of airlock seal or — yes — how a classic Razr flips open.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2020
But the thermal cameras that detect edges are not being used in this World Cup, so small snicks are still almost impossible to detect.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011
A few slashes at the rigging, and a couple of snicks at the spars themselves, sent the sticks over the side quick enough; the brig stood up again and rode easier.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center.
From Time Magazine Archive
On its way it snicked a neat little chip out of a chair-back.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
There was a roaring of winds and a crashing of thunders, and the blue-white lightning snicked in and out of the forest or tore sprawling cracks in the sky.
From Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country by Wallace, Edgar
The old bird's head snicked round, right round, almost hindpart before; but he made no other movement.
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
A batsman certainly gets a considerable amount of innocent fun by snicking good fast balls just off his wicket to the ropes, and standing stolidly in front against slow leg-breaks.
From Tales of St. Austin's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
The bill-hook was doing nothing, and picking it up I fell to snicking and chopping, with soothing destructiveness, among the briars and ash-saplings.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
The shroff was clicking on his abacus, and left off snicking the beads up and down to remark casually that the compradore had gone.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
