snips
Example Sentences
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With a few snips of her scissors, a plain whiteboard rag transforms into three strips of cloth perfect for braiding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The research showed that V8 snips one end of the PAR1 protein and awakens it.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 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
