Sentence examples for (snip) from inspiring English sources

The word 'snip' is not a word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to cut something off, such as "I snipped the flowers off the stems".

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(snip)

verb

To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

  • I don't want you to take much hair off

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The DIY solution at the time, he says, was for women to "snip their manteaus short".

The point I was trying to make is that though £60 is an outrageous sum to charge for a pre-season friendly, plenty of people will consider it a snip.

And on top of the sophisticated knife skills required for meat and fish preparation, students will also have to learn how to mash, shred, scissor snip, scoop, crush, de-skin, de-seed, pipe, blend, juice and prepare garnishes.

A Dorset company's botched quest to find royalty-free images of the England World Cup squad for use on merchandise led to Barack Obama, the leader of the free world, appearing instead of Chris Smalling on 2,000 mugs – a snip at £11.99 each.

By budget day his campaign vow to scrap the city's gross-receipts business tax had shrivelled to a plan to snip it from 0.51% to 0.425% over the next four years (although he continues to promise its elimination).

Somehow, somebody has to work out how to stop the disease spreading.The pill or the snip?Oddly, one possible way of making a big dent in the problem has been sitting under people's noses for years.

Those employed by Dr June were designed to snip CCR5.

The projects he has been involved with include a refrigerator built from clay, which uses no electricity yet can help keep vegetables fresh for several days, and a cheap crop-duster in the form of a sprayer mounted on a motorcycle.In this section Gone shopping Sino-Trojan horse The fight for Opel Tilting at windmills A snip at the price Born free Ding dong!

But, in most places, ignorance, complacency and the stigma attached to the disease are potent killers.In this section A hundred years of fortitude To snip or not to snip?

Then a five-seater light aircraft is also for sale, or a child-size Porsche with motor and gears a snip at $1,400.

The Ghost shares the butch looks, huge engine and imposing presence of its big brother, the Phantom, but is a snip by comparison.

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