snick
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Off Anderson's bowling, Labuschagne offered a regulation snick from a back-foot drive only for Buttler to spill the ball at a comfortable height moving to his right.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
It snaps on the back of a caseless iPhone with a satisfying snick.
From The Verge ● Jul. 23, 2021
It crunches around in the glass, and you can hear its eyes snick in their sockets as it anxiously looks all around your small apartment.
From Slate ● May 30, 2020
Moeen Ali strikes, two balls after the drinks break, getting one to drift into Elgar and then spin enough to snick through to Bairstow!
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016
Then she stepped back into the hallway, and in a moment they heard the snick of a box being slit open.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
They're fluffy and cakey without being too fluffy or too cakey like some snicks.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
I love the way a makeup compact snicks shut or how a luxury car door closes with a kind of airlock seal or — yes — how a classic Razr flips open.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2020
The sixth ball snicks off his edge through third slip, and Cook whips his head around in panic to see if he has been spared.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2010
Jabez ranged up and down till he found a thinner place, and with clean snicks of the handbill revealed the original face of the fence.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
Root snicked it and Morris, who took a blinder earlier to dismiss Cook, couldn’t hang on to a very sharp chance as he dived to his left.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016
The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a clumsy motion of a long hairy arm he reached out and snicked on the button, then placed himself within its deadly range.
From The Mind Master by Burks, Arthur J.
Then he grew bolder; hit him for a single, and snicked him to the fence for four.
From Mates at Billabong by Bruce, Mary Grant
He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
A quick, curved forefinger was already snicking off the outer covers.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
"About Jake Kilroe now," said Billy, sitting down at the table and snicking open the box of cartridges, "about Jake Kilroe—what does the marshal want me to do?"
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
Quick," snicking off the light of the electric torch and rising to his feet, "into your dressing-room, baron.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.
