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UK
/snˈɪpɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
How To Use snipping In A Sentence
- I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
- As the beauticians of the city watched in attention, her fingers moved nimbly showcasing the latest in hairstyling, colouring and snipping techniques.
- As she showed me her herb section, she kept snipping off pieces for me to take home. SOMEBODY
- A burglar will never be able to disarm the system by snipping the wires.
- I've wanted to make a garden box for ages and love the idea of snipping herbs right out of my garden. Gardening
- The procedure involves snipping a bit of skin from the patient to get the DNA.
- We play for a while, and end up outside, where Sara is snipping lilacs from the bushes.
- Then he lunges at me, with tweezers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, bottle openers and scissors all snipping, whirring and snapping at me in perfect synchronicity.
- Snipi, which became available as a free download from Snipi. com on Monday, helps you organize your online-shopping results by gathering, or "snipping," product information from Web pages and saving the information to lists. Organizing Your Online Shopping
- Trimming the tag end of the knot or even simply cutting it can pose a problem for anglers more used to snipping monofilament.