nipper

Example Sentences

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And customers might be snippier than usual these days, too.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Some of the snippier reviews deemed it an imitation of Stephen King’s The Stand; King himself called The Passage “enthralling”, with “the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2016

The conversation grew snippier as one effort after another failed, and the clock ticked down.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2014

Leng becomes even snippier when she realizes that Terry and Jiale are bonding.

From Washington Post

I checked my e-mail, reading the backlog of letters from my mother, getting snippier as they progressed to the present.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer