Verb (used with object) : to snip a rose. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a snip of food. From Dictionary.com.
Katie, love the idea of snipping the basil with scissors. From Wordnik.com. [Basil and Parmesan Rice with Pine Nuts] Reference
I've wanted to make a garden box for ages and love the idea of snipping herbs right out of my garden. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening] Reference
Gosnell referred to it as "snipping," prosecutors said. From Wordnik.com. [Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts Of Murder] Reference
All the time we had been together, I don’t recall snipping at her. From Wordnik.com. [2008 March « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference
By "snipping" one species out of a food chain, such as the ocean, humans could see extinction of other organisms in that chain. From Wordnik.com. [News for Opelika-Auburn News] Reference
Spend a few minutes snipping off the flower spikes. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Beguiled by basil] Reference
Video game console companies are snipping away, too. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
Does that include, for example, snipping, things like that?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2001] Reference
Just the sibilance of scissors, snipping at her sanity. From Wordnik.com. [Flyaway] Reference
And for the past 30 minutes or so, has been snipping things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007] Reference
The snipping was only a kind of mental barbering, a limbering up. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
She kept yanking my hair and snipping away as she screamed at him. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Naomi Levy: The Sabbath Unplugged] Reference
And her scissors started snipping quicker while she talked about it. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
He lifted it experimentally, making snipping sounds with his scissors. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
He had some woolen army gloves modified by snipping off the fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
Prepare the stamina from this piece of wax by snipping the proper number. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
Its forelegs had huge sharp pincers suitable for snipping off legs or head. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
And then goes on with her snipping and paring with the heartiest unconcern. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
How do you count fractions on your fingers without snipping off bits of them?. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!] Reference
The gouging and snipping, so irritating to a person of nerves, is thus avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
“Two or three years ago,” began the art lover, snipping the end of his cigar. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
Here mother stopped snipping at her rose-trees, and came up to one of the sunflowers. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I] Reference
Every time the phone rang, he braced for her voice to come snipping over the intercom. From Wordnik.com. [The Hollow]
KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Grant Achatz is snipping cedar leaves. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007] Reference
"Yes, I'm a-piecin 'quilts again," she said, snipping away at the bits of calico in her lap. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
The barber, snipping away under his chin, was attempting to question him without being obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
I walked the rows, twisting, snipping, and cajoling the most beautiful of the lot onto my trays. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Neumark: Tomato Thief] Reference
Your chances of running into even the most minor glitch is small, notwithstanding IBM's snipping. From Wordnik.com. [Chipping Away At Intel's Rep] Reference
SIGESMUND: And then tonight on ER, they are snipping out two seconds of an 80-year-old woman's breast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2004] Reference
You have the two front-runners who are snipping at each other about who should be at the top of the ticket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008] Reference
This 8-year-old German shepherd, Lex, was the canine bomb-snipping companion of Marine Corporal Dustin Lee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2007] Reference
He ` s one of the most talented hairstylists in the world, snipping and shaping the tresses of top Hollywood stars. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2005] Reference
He himself chose a cigar, which he held against his ear and pinched, before snipping off the end with a good cigar cutter. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
Surrounding it, spacesuited Tampies were snipping carefully through the tight-fitting webbing, giving the bulge room to expand. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
KELLEY JELINSKI, NEWS 12 WESTCHESTER REPORTER (voice-over): He's been snipping and clipping, perfecting his craft for the past 84 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008] Reference
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