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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

The research showed that V8 snips one end of the PAR1 protein and awakens it.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023

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 • Mar. 29, 2023

There was a mat and a pillow in one corner and a shelf along one wall covered in coils of wire, tin snips, pliers, and little glass jars filled with sorted pieces of metal.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat