snips
Example Sentences
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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.
“If disrupting a trial was illegal, I’d add it to the list,” Elder Evergreen snips.
From Literature
Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.
From Seattle Times
The sheep lies down, calm, as Begay pulls up a section and snips deftly with even strokes.
From Seattle Times
The scientists attached this tag to protein toxins and the gene-editing enzyme Cas9, a large molecular scissors that snips DNA at a location specified by a molecule that guides the scissors to the right place.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
