snip

Example Sentences

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Because that night, while Clare was balancing atop his tallest chair, snipping down a mushroom to chop and pack into a glass bottle, a pair of glowing eyes appeared in his window.

From Literature

Except for the snip of the counter girl, I hadn’t felt so normal in weeks.

From Literature

Feeling “unease at seeing history being ‘snipped and clipped and disappeared,’” he dubbed his process “guerrilla teaching.”

From Salon

They are quick to snip losses and quick to take profits.

From Barron's

This may have been the most overt art-as-protest moment, showing dancers climbing sparking electrical poles, only to fall off and dangle by what looked like snipped wires.

From Salon