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

Use a sharp knife, snips or bypass pruner to cut 3- to 6-inch-long pieces from firm, mature, non-woody stems.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023

“If disrupting a trial was illegal, I’d add it to the list,” Elder Evergreen snips.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas