snip
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Synonyms for snip
Synonyms: Noun
atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snippet, speck, tittle
Synonyms: Verb
bob, clip, crop, cut, cut back, dock, lop (off), nip, pare, poll, prune, shave, shear, trim
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Examples of snip in a Sentence
Noun
cleared out the snips of paper that had been clogging the machine that antique urn that we bought at London's Portobello Road Market was a real snipVerb
He snipped some fresh herbs from plants on the windowsill. snipping pictures out of magazines She snipped at the hanging strings.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
There may be a lot of baggage around bangs, but with benefits like this, a strategic snip may be in your best interest. — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, "Dakota Johnson Puts a ’70s Spin on the Power Ponytail," 2 Aug. 2019 While a club record signing and £54m fee is hard to justify as a bargain at the surface level, in the transfer market of today, where Tyrone Mings costs £20m and Lewis Dunk is apparently worth £45m, Tanguy Ndombele is a snip at that price. — SI.com, "Tanguy Ndombele: Why Tottenham's Record Transfer Is the Bargain Signing of the Summer," 28 July 2019 Ideally, the technique barricades the virus and snips each strand of the outbreak’s expanding web. — Los Angeles Times, "Why the long-awaited Ebola vaccine won’t end the Congo outbreak," 25 July 2019 On the back of winning Euro 2012 with Spain and being named in the Team of the Tournament, £11.2m was a snip. — SI.com, "50 of the Best Bargain Transfers of All Time," 9 July 2019 Brittany Greeson for The New York Times At dozens of barbershops and laundromats across the United States, the sound of children reading aloud mingles with the buzz and snip from barbers’ tools or the din of washers. — New York Times, "Want Kids to Learn the Joy of Reading? Barbershops and Laundromats Can Help," 2 July 2019 Tossing away qubits is like snipping strands in a spider’s web — even a single snip can unravel the whole thing. — Quanta Magazine, "A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers," 24 Apr. 2019 There are books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, audio and video elements, and relics—at the Public Library, a lock of his hair, and, at the Grolier, snips that may be from his beard. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday," 17 June 2019 In addition to the letters, Swinerton provided each of the four students with DeWalt tools, including snips, a folding retractable knife and screwdriver set. — Caylor Nuth, Ramona Sentinel, "Montecito students sign pledges to work for Swinerton," 5 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
On Tuesday, when the big blue scissors snipped the gold ribbon, what seemed an impossible dream became a reality. — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, "Chase Center ribbon cutting: Impossible dream becomes Warriors’ reality," 3 Sep. 2019 Pelosi noted that the Squad had mustered only four votes in an immigration controversy, and Ocasio-Cortez sniped back that Pelosi had shown a pattern of disrespect for brown and black women. — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 25 July 2019 Restriction enzymes, the standard tool for cutting DNA, can snip chunks of genetic material and join the ends to form small circular segments that can be moved out of one cell and into another. — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, "Forget single genes: CRISPR now cuts and splices whole chromosomes," 29 Aug. 2019 One friend brought a dish of pasta with pesto (made with the fresh basil snipped from his garden) and another brought a tomato and avocado salad. — Bea Lewis, sun-sentinel.com, "Forget cooking, assemble instead | Opinion," 15 Aug. 2019 Holding its stomach over a laboratory sink, Beck snipped open the slick tissue. — Rachel Becker, The Mercury News, "Seabirds eating plastic. Recyclers struggling. This is what California’s waste crisis looks like," 3 Aug. 2019 Hosta-lover Kennedy snips off any leaves that get burned. — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, "The Hoosier Gardener: The sun is a blessing and a curse in the garden," 1 Aug. 2019 Tin snips work better, but there is a tool whose only purpose is to open clamshells. — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, "This common plastic packaging is a recycling nightmare," 26 July 2019 Evidence that Gallagher sniped civilians was nonexistent. — David French, National Review, "Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s Acquittal Reminds Us to Never Rush to Judgment," 3 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'snip.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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