Sentence examples for snips at from inspiring English sources

"Hey!" she snips at the audience.

For more than three decades, in numerous lauded — and at times excoriated — books, she stalked her prey (not too strong an image; of an interview with an academic, she writes, "my silver-plated scissors are ever at the ready to take snips at her"), appearing not just as a passive interlocutor, but as a character, the deliberately intrusive "I".

He snips at the barbed wire surrounding Mauldin's childhood in the rural Southwest, revealing the unhealed wounds of a highly intelligent boy who was passed over as a runt by a proud dreamer of a father and considered a genius by a mentally unstable mother.

A few snips at the hair salon turned Jetta Fosberg's selfless act into a school nightmare.

She prefers people to work for me, not the other way around," says Charlie, as he expertly snips at the fringe of a client.

Sunday, August 26 Coup Savage and the Snips at Black Cat The six-piece soul band headlines a benefit show for Right Rides DC.

Then he began snipping at his handlers.

All this a snip at £12bn.

A snip at £80 a pop, not.

A snip at around £260 each.

Snip at pants until they morph into shorts!