Sentence examples for were snipped from inspiring English sources

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were snipped

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 lines were snipped from the final show.

The gables were snipped and trimmed and the edges angled off with barber-like precision.

What caught my attention was that the siphons, or "necks," were snipped off.

Reyes ran his fingers nervously through his dreadlocks, and he smiled and grimaced as they were snipped, one by one.

He said all traces of Lambton's nomination were snipped out of the candidates' book with a pair of scissors.

He has had colon polyps removed on several occasions, including last Saturday, when five were snipped out.

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We were snipping and sniping, rolling our eyes and sighing weary sighs to punctuate the patience required to explain simple concepts.

Inside, the price has been snipped away on the diagonal.

After Lenzner intervened, the reference was snipped from the story.

Scenes we'd laboured over had been snipped away.

About three inches had been snipped from Boston's Rapunzel.

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