Sentence examples for had snipped from inspiring English sources

His mother and the chef, Shirley Cavallo, had snipped basil over the top, and the aroma flooded the table.

But Dr. Gosnell's lawyer, Mr. McMahon, reiterated his defense that his client had snipped the necks only of fetuses that were already dead.

Perhaps the staff person hadn't wanted the scissors to stay near him for a prolonged period and had snipped quickly, then leaped away, approached again, grabbed and snipped, then jumped back.

A researcher in a lab at Hopkins swung open a freezer door and showed the daughter, Deborah Lacks-Pullum, thousands of vials, each holding millions of cells descended from a bit of tissue that doctors had snipped from her mother's cervix.

But now I've snipped it, so no more.

If Milan was all about Mamma, Paris in its customary fashion has snipped the apron strings.

None of them had been on earth long enough for multiple cell divisions to have snipped away at their telomeres.

The recession has cut tax revenues, and Congress has snipped away at proposed spending cuts which Roque Fernandez, the economy minister, last month promised the IMF.

"Do you feel safe with the Middle East and George Bush and airplanes crashing into buildings?" He eyes critically the curlicues the hairdresser has snipped into his foliage.

(In fact, Levine said, dog trainers have snipped the pericardium of racing dogs, allowing their hearts to expand. The dogs, he says, then ran faster).

In translating Shakespeare's "Hamlet" into an elemental fable that would transcend cultural barriers, Mr. Brook has snipped away at and rearranged the text while reducing the play's cast to a spartan eight members.