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
They slipped through the door, shut it, and locked it from the outside with a too-loud snick.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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
The sixth ball snicks off his edge through third slip, and Cook whips his head around in panic to see if he has been spared.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2010
Now there were no edgings through the slips and snicks to leg.
From Psmith in the City by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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
“No, master, if my head had been snicked off I couldn’t ha’ bin here.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Mild youths with spectacles leaped out of their ground like tigers, and snicked fours through the slips.
From The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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
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 Martin Ross
The sun has gained great power, and on still bright days sharp snicking sounds are to be heard from the firs.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
"I guess," she said, taking a box of cartridges from the top shelf and snicking open the sealing with a finger nail, "I guess I'd better load this rifle."
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
