Cutting word

Usage examples of snip.

Tycho was an argumentative soul who, once, in a duel, had the end of his nose snipped off, and thereafter always had to appear in public with a neat silver tip glinting in the light.

The Lion-King glowered at Mahtra through gemstone eyes while the august emerita snipped a corner off a fresh sheet of parchment and covered it with bold, red lines of ink.

I heard Maum Patty scold you yesterday for letting Jip bite it and snip out a piece.

Abigail Fletcher, alias Madam Silver, stood on the sidewalk, about to snip the lifeline Moll Gallagher had found so fascinating.

First Teasle touched the scissors to the side of his head, snipping, and Rambo tried, but could not stop himself from flinching.

But Teasle snipped the scissors to his head again and Rambo flinched again, and hair caught in the swivel of the scissors, yanking sharply at his scalp.

Yes, she was plainly old, yet the way she moved as she beckoned us in across the huge and empty hall, still snipping those secateurs, you half-expected her to fly.

It was amazing how easily and swiftly the shining shears snipped through the crusty rag around the wound.

Teal had watched Artemus Healey, the Neutral, writhe naked under his blanket of insects and had watched Elisha Talbot, the Simoniac, squirm and kick his flaming feet, his damned money now a cushion under his head, and had watched Phineas Jennison quiver and shake as his body hung shredded and snipped.

As I said, the cuts are deep, the veins snipped cleanly, made by something very sharp.

You think Caitlyn Bandeaux slid under the Triumph and snipped the brake lines?

As she thought of Caitlyn, Atropos snipped at the pictures of Cricket and Sugar.

With her pair of long-bladed surgical scissors, she snipped the red and black braid cleanly.

There was no swelling round the wound, and Bella chewed her cud happily as I snipped away.

Sometimes you found the real thing further along in the colon, and for a long time I snipped my way along the coils of bowel with my scissors without finding anything definite.