Sentence examples for snick from inspiring English sources

Forgery gave Henry I much trouble, and one step he took to prevent it was to issue his later coins with a snick in the edge to show that the silver was good.

"Although individual Snick workers can take part if they like.

Man, there's a cartoon in our Jackson office showing the Snick power structure, and it's just one big snarl.

A snick snaps attention back to the match, Cook edging the ball through the gap between first slip and the 'keeper.

Often I could hear the snick of a fishing rod halfway down the lake as it was cast.

'May I just say I am glued to the screen here in Nantucket... To England - a hint from Nantucket: Bowl Boucher a bouncer - with luck it Will snick off his bat And knock his stumps flat As he scrambles in terror to duck it (Sorry, but Channel 4 is back to Newbury again, I'm afraid).

Sensing an opportunity, Mr Brennan is already working on a hybrid Hot-Snick.

Close-up video appeared to show a deviation, while the snick-o-meter picked up the faintest of sounds, but it was the absence of the Hot Spot technology which proved decisive – it was being used by broadcasters to analyse the previous dismissal of Joe Root, and is not capable of playing and recording simultaneously, leaving England aggrieved but helpless.

The driver's-side mirror has a useful blind-spot reflector, the sliding shade for the sunroof is welcome and the golf-ball-size chrome gearshift knob is quite slick even if it doesn't rival the snick-snick precision of a Mazda Miata.

It isn't so much the regimen - the timetable, the ironing, the daily shaves which leave me grey-mugged and snick-necked - as it is the sense of being watched.

That would explain the vigour with which MacLennan has set sharp blades to work - snick-a-snack - on editorial.