How To Use Snip In A Sentence
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The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
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8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily.
Archive 2008-03-01
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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.
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I thought the snippety interaction between RDJ and Paltrow was one of the best things about this one, and the saving grace of the first.
Iron man 2
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It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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The venison is good served with roasted parsnips, chestnuts or braised celery.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
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On behalf of tiny snipers, we are delighted to invite you to join an iterative process of hematoid symposia to be held at the hinges of daily life.
Dear Carl
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Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
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It did not help that both players took to Twitter to snipe from the sidelines.
Times, Sunday Times
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For most cutting tasks, the only tool you'll need is a pair of aviation snips.
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Because while we may find a snippet of moral fibre here and detect evidence of it there, somehow it seems to be far less plentiful these days.
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As for communications equipment, the snipers need small, easily packable radios and a good directional antenna to allow for longer-range communications.
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In an effort to keep pests off the parsnips we began cloaking the beds with Agrofabric, a translucent, permeable rowcover made of woven fiberglass.
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There's a snip in this cloth.
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As the beauticians of the city watched in attention, her fingers moved nimbly showcasing the latest in hairstyling, colouring and snipping techniques.
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Mr. Cuthill states that it is a mistake to pack them in dry sand or earth for the winter; and that the same may be said of parsnips, carrots, salsify, scorzonera, and similar roots.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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I also made an abortive attempt at creativity with tin snips and a tin can.
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The Spanish media were still sniping at the British press yesterday.
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As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
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Seedlings of parsnip, carrot, beetroot and radish must fight off slugs, and weeds also need checking, hoeing them as they grow, to leave the pests nowhere to hide.
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Delays are expected, but thereinafter Shattersnipe will return with its regularly scheduled ramblings.
2008 July « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
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Enemy snipers were just waiting to aim at the glow of a cigarette end.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe in honesty is the best policy, not fake sniper fire.
Schneider: More sobering news - the value gap
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He is terrified, unnecessarily so, that any snippet of information could be turned into an advantage for opponents.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
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We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets.
Times, Sunday Times
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A fee of 7million looks a snip.
The Sun
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The myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers.
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Hardly a day goes by without a snippet to evoke the ghost of negative equity that followed the 1990s crash.
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The other sniper was crouched behind a rusted workbench close to the main doorway.
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At the same time, the CIEF man named Whitfield called out, “Sniper position is lased!”
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
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A dark creature approaches it still snaps and snipes but offers a parasol which is taken before it retires
Quick crossword No 12,722
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LIFT some parsnips and store in dry soil or peat under polythene ready for use when the soil is frozen.
The Sun
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At the second transplanting, Hiram snipped back the tops, and the roots as well, so that each plant would grow sturdily and not be too "stalky".
Hiram the Young Farmer
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The supermarket has also seen more root vegetables such as parsnips, potatoes and carrots being sold.
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This delicious trick for roasting parsnips is a firm favourite with my family and friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly, up got such a wisp of snipe, under my very feet, that I am bound to say I missed both barrels
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Planes bombed the guerrilla positions yesterday in an attempt to flush out snipers from underground tunnels.
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The subject is arranged around the city/country axis - half the plays are twitchy, snippy, morally grey urban comedies, and the other half are la-la land everything-is-nice-in-the-countryside pastorals.
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His skills saved his life when the sniper opened fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the squad broke up to attack various positions the sniper held back to provide cover fire.
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Serve with a scoop of soured cream and snipped chives.
Times, Sunday Times
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With testicles that small you could handle it with an herb snipper.
Think Progress » Liberty University Withdraws From CPAC Because Of Gay Rights Group’s Co-Sponsorship
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To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
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Spoon hot parsnip purée into the pastry cases, top with mushrooms, add dill garnish with lemon wedge on the side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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At the moment curly kale, sprouts and parsnips are being harvested in the suburban garden and the head gardener is on hand for advice.
Times, Sunday Times
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We use it for sniping only, we are not shooting in all directions.
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But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
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We want to show you a couple of quick snippets here and then get the panel's reaction.
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The parsnips are ready to harvest when the crown is the diameter of a 50 cent piece.
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Have you seen the scissors? I want to snip off this loose thread.
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Another time, the Skink commander was fired on by a sniper. Unhurt but furious, the commander directed the Skink's guns to fire in the direction of the sniper.
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The ratio of adjectives to total word tokens in that effective snippet of prose, by the way, is an unusually high 40 percent.
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Serve with snipped chives and a swirl of yoghurt mixed with the horseradish sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word.
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Keathley takes a snippet from a bud and starts to clone it through micropropagation.
Science Of The Season
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Try blending carrots, parsnips or peas into soups, or adding a cheese sauce to cauliflower or broccoli.
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Between them will be snippets from an in-depth interview.
The Sun
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Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
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As a sniper, he spent most of his time between the lines of trenches, in ‘No Man's Land ’, hunting other snipers.
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There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
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And there's always a lot of sniping and carping in the newsroom and by the water cooler.
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There are some enticing snippets of intricate detail but these are too few and far between.
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Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
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Since 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion was a Special Forces–rated unit, it got all the cool jobs, and he was the go-to guy on patrol security, Agency snatch-and-grabs and various countersniper and IED problems.
Dead Zero
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Storm teased her over what he termed her magpie mind, which picked up snippets of information to store for future airing.
The Outrageous Dowager
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After yesterday's post on safes and storage, we heard a snippet on Radio 4's You and Yours about the history of valuables storage.
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Of course, if nature has not been kind, a wig, dyeing or maybe even a snip here or there could help you to look more like your favourite character.
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BTW If you think doves are hard try hunting jacksnipe around a marsh.
Feathers vs Clay
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This family of plants is vast and contains some of our most popular herbs such as, dill, coriander, parsley and angelica as well as some common pot herbs, for example carrot, parsnips and celery.
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She offers many snippets of keen and astute observation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recording made him nervous and he gave up in mid-career, relenting for this album to play solo Bach in long stretches, without snippety editing or technical interference.
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Critics also sniped that Presley was neither a musician nor a songwriter.
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Almost a dozen more have been wounded by snipers who lie in ambush or fire from cars.
The Sun
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They removed part of my colon and snipped away all the disease from my small intestine in a three-hour operation.
The Sun
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Worse, Filler constantly breaks into cutesy song snippets, a habit that grows less endearing every time it happens.
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Serve with snipped chives and a swirl of yoghurt mixed with the horseradish sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
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We find this to be incentive enough to always zoom while firing your sniper rifle.
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Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
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The fight-scene, probably co-ordinated by Mr. Snipes, is very well done and Jessica handles herself without any problems at all.
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As to rifles in Va, I heard some years back that the commonwealth was considering banning them as there were concerns about slobs road hunting and sniping turkeys out of open fields beside the road.
Rifle hunting turkeys
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Parsnip ( Pastinacasativa ) and Fangfeng ( Saposhnikovia divaricata ) belong to two different genera under Umbelliferae.
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But snippets and fragments of legend and lore had filtered in from somewhere.
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Finely snip the chives over the salad.
Times, Sunday Times
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Locals claim the dead were civilians shot by snipers or caught in crossfire.
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The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
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Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims. snip several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
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You look like a regular snipe, Ranke," said Erich Hippke, Quartermaster with the watch after Kurt's, as Kurt climbed out of the fireroom.
The Heirs of Babylon
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He said the trick with cooking grouse was to keep it simple - but, if they stick to the rules, Atkins dieters may have to forego some of the trimmings that come with the new-season bird, such as parsnip crisps and bread sauce.
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‘I can take care of myself,’ said Melena in a snippy voice.
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Soft (or Fine or Kind) words butter no parsnips.
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Hinting at the soulful surplus of house music, Melchior works with tiny elements: a burble of a bassline, a snippet of singing, and hi-hat drums that point toward the heavens without lifting their arms.
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Melt remaining butter in a pan and fry parsnip, carrots and shallots for five to six minutes.
The Sun
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Sometimes these snippets of information have been the final piece of the jigsaw, which has enabled us to obtain a search warrant and make an arrest.
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Mr Snippet will long since have abandoned all hope that I was ever going to respond to what he had to say, but I never quite forgot his point, and periodically, while shaving or whatever, I have been mulling things over.
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A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
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From the little snippets he did give I have pieced together quite a bit of the story.
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Some snipefish, such as the ones on the cover, also have a long, pointed spine stretching back from the dorsal fin.
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I suspect the sniping is all being orchestrated by one disgruntled driver.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Oklahoma House of Representatives Proposes Ban on Use of Foreign Law in Oklahoma Courts
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a big kind of lapwing and snipe; but the snipe here were cunning, and got up wild and flew far, so I only got a small bag.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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The light was gloomy even through the image-intensifying sniperscope he was using as a telescope.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He was hit in the neck by a bullet from a sniper.
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He has now begun to snip away at the piece of paper.
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His constant sniping and determination to play the game in the face of the Sale defence ensured the visitors could not afford to relax their defensive guard.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd hear snippets of tense conversation between my father and her.
Christianity Today
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Most fans of the modern game have only seen snippets of the team in the disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fair words butter no parsnips.
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Naturally, Gina starts thinking, like many of her Western friends, that it may be time to consider some surgical intervention - yes, "the snip" - preferably performed on her husband.
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But hoummos has another, second life as an accompaniment to simple grills, served on the side in the same way that you would serve mashed potato or a parsnip purée.
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After 10 minutes of frustrated rocking/pacing/sniping at each other we were jet-lagged too, and four of us sharing a room didn't exactly help with the general mood, Cam took control and fed the baby, to a chorus of "We'll never get her routine straight now" from her other two parents.
Charlie Condou: The three of us
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Mr. Kelly broke his back in three places when falling through a roof while on a countersniper mission in Baghdad at the age of 22.
Helping Soldiers Cope With Trauma
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The complaint against them, it seems, is that they supplied the troops around Sarajevo who shelled and sniped at civilians.
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Place the parsnips on the middle shelf of the oven (with the potatoes on the top), and the chipolatas on the lowest shelf or floor of the oven.
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All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished.
The Sun
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The last fatal shooting attributed to the sniper took place Tuesday.
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If this 'snippet' is an indicator of the rest of the interview who would want to watch the "Palin Lies" reruns?
Palin: We're 'not really into the drama'
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I've seen you for the past three days, and you've never gotten snippy like that before.
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After a few moments the snipers commence their commentary via the team's radio net - ensuring all callsigns have situational awareness.
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Melt the beef dripping or lard in the hot tray, then add the parsnips and season with salt and pepper.
Times, Sunday Times
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But instead of bickering and sniping, the parties should unite behind the urgent task of saving Britain's tourist industry.
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Holding back laughter, I watched as Hannah measured out sections of hair with a comb and snipped the ends off.
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Herds of deer roam in the open glades; droves of pigs are found in the forest somewhat similar to those of England; and a bird, the ynambu guazu, as large as a pheasant; while quails are seen in flocks in the esteros, -- with snipe, wild pigeons, and other birds.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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I'm really pleased and frankly relieved to report," begins Glenn Kenny, "that, a couple of snippable minutes and some dubious music choices aside (that Cake song about the jacket is one thing, but a cover of Howard Jones's 'No One Is To Blame' is pushing it), writer/director Adrienne Shelly's final feature Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that payoff every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell) blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Waitress.
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No, I'm bent over double thinking what my bag limit on woodcock, snipe, rails and other game birds would be.
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The parsnips and potato will purée completely, but the beetroot always remains a little grainy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The diversity of genre, the incredible artwork across the board, and the generally impressive writing make it a snip at fifteen dollars.
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With it the sniper needed a truly extraordinary level of self-discipline, hundreds, if not thousands of hours of practice in the arts of shooting and of fieldcraft, and a high pain threshold.
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For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a "guttersnipe," and with good reason.
Hoffmania!
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This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says.
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That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington.
Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR?
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During his term he was often seen on the evening news in snippy exchanges with reporters or lecturing taxpayers to take their tax-hike medicine.
Deval Patrick's Charm Offensive
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I was probably a little snippier than I needed to be, but it was coming up on 4: 30 and I was really freaking tired and I frankly was none too happy about the accusatory wee hours phone call.
October 7th, 2005
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All kinds of snippets of ideas for tunes kept popping into my head so I jotted them down.
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Each snippet of bad news was distressing for Philipp.
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Elise - Ms. Big Mouth was good at telling what she wants, and despite missing one Quality Control test, she caught the parsnip puree subbed for the potato mash.
The Season 9 Hell's Kitchen Winner Is ...
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After boot camp, the sergeant encouraged some of us tougher boys who could shoot a little to volunteer for what he called the scout/snipers.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
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I snipped the string and untied the parcel.
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Any fool can be pedantic and snipe at what they think are minor errors in grammar.
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No matter how much you love the stone and broom game, when it takes priority in the biggest country in the Commonwealth, you can see why critics feel able to snipe.
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I wonder what makes her ready from day one if it's the mess in Somalia or more than a million that died in Rwanda genocide, maybe it's the snipper fire.
Clinton adviser makes superdelegate pitch
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Gunmen continued to snipe at people leaving their homes to find food.
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Snipes 'long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Then, for zest, add a snippet or two of something peppery like arugula, mustard, or cress.
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Those who snipe about colleagues not only end up the most unpopular - but also have the least influence at work.
The Sun
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The snippets of dialogue, picked up from hours and hours of conversations with relatives, are wonderfully evocative.
Times, Sunday Times
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If anyone can shine a light on these mysterious snippets of nonsense I would be very happy to hear about it.
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Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to culture-making; in art, for example, postmodernists will "appropriate" from anywhere and everywhere, and by redefining the context of the works or snippets, create something new (Andy Warhol's soup cans, above: using "fine art" painting methods to appropriate canned soup).
Archive 2009-01-01
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I was once charged 15 for four roast potatoes, three parsnips some petit pois and broccoli.
Times, Sunday Times
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I apologize for being unnecessarily snippy and for overlooking, misunderstanding or inadvertently mischaracterizing the arguments of opponents.
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And though it may cost him £20 a time on the train, he firmly believes it would be a snip at twice the price.
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Why, when I was first married I used to think that my wife was awful snippety about other women.
The Indiscreet Letter
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At the moment I am reading King’s “The Shining” and the internal monologue of all the characters features prominently – though in tiny snippets, rather than in large slabs and are delineated from the rest of the narrative, through the use of brackets.
Interior Monologues in Writing « Write Anything
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Ask a greengrocer to get you a root of fresh horseradish, which looks like a dirty, knobbly parsnip.
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A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
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The unnecessary use of any of the following words -- 'subliminable,' 'snippy' or 'recount' -- will result in an invitation not to return," she said.
Leader Of The Pack
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The Spanish media were still sniping at the British press yesterday.
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All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished.
The Sun
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A game purely about sniping is surely great?
The Sun
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She pulled the scissors from her dress pocket and snipped her hair off.
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We don't spend our time sniping at farmers' headage payments.
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And then they're off again, blabbing, sniping, yakking, havering.
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… patients risked being treated by doctors who were incompetent or were not fluent in English. [snipped] European regulations which allow free movement of labour mean the GMC is unable to carry out clinical or language checks on doctors from EU countries as it does for those from elsewhere in the world., by Nick Triggle, BBC News
VDARE.com: Blog Articles
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Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
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The film's trailer debuted last night with a couple quick snippets focusing on Decker walking in slow-mo.
WATCH: Brooklyn Decker In A Bikini In Slow Motion
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Snip chives into little pieces using scissors or mince them on a cutting board with a sharp knife.
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When Tiger was a boy, he snipped out an article in the Los Angeles Times on Nicklaus' achievements and pasted it on the wall above his bed.
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Your ability to articulate what matters to you, and speak up when you feel wronged, is what will keep your hard feelings from mutating into snippy competitive rage.
Carolyn Hax: Mulling marriage, she wants guarantees
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At the moment curly kale, sprouts and parsnips are being harvested in the suburban garden and the head gardener is on hand for advice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's a snip from a feature in New York Magazine about freaked-out workers on Wall Street who gazed into the abyss with a closer view than the rest of us, and made survival plans:
Boing Boing
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The identity of the sniper remains uncertain.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals
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Ince flies a mature tiercel male peregrine successfully at snipe, dove and quail, some of the toughest quarries any trained falcon catches.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Peel carrots and parsnips; halve crosswise to separate thick and narrow parts.
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THERE'S something glamorous about being a sniper.
The Sun
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Beyond proving that British chavs lead the world in teenage debauchery there are other interesting statistical snippets.
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If you fire your sniper rifle while unscoped, you will notice a significant decrease in accuracy.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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Boys, I move that he keeps still and lets this human philopena snip you out a speech.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Season the apple and parsnip mixture with salt and pepper, stir through the thyme and serve with the runny egg on top.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the snipe and the clam grapple , it is the fisherman who profits.
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He is already looking a snip at 12million.
The Sun
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They were busy packing the root cellar with parsnips, canning their ox tongues and making their tourtieres and petes-des-soeurs, or driving the dogsled down the hill for a barrel of water.
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In another incident he sent a scout to catch an enemy sniper.
Times, Sunday Times
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I always grow concerned when news networks break out their extra spiffy graphics during War Game time: showing Navy snipers shooting faceless bad guys, troop deployments in a "theoretic" ground invasion of Somalia, etc.
Allison Kilkenny: Blowback Amnesia
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The German snipers were expecting them.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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Sprawling mats of rock roses (helianthemum) need the lank flower stems snipped away in handfuls, with secateurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was deadly white, a bloody bandage swathed his neck, and his rainproof was soaked with the blood of a sniper's victim.
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Snippen reports that the FAA wants to keep where and how often commercial aircraft are damaged by hitting birds as they claim the public would "misinterpret" the information.
AIR TRAVEL AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
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The former minister has been making himself unpopular recently, sniping at his ex-colleagues.
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The American people are tired of Hillarys continous attempt to confuses the issues, maybe being under sniper firer has really affected her.
Blitzer: Court ruling could have huge impact at the polls
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If you can't pry out the nails without further damaging the wall, use the snips to cut the bead from around the nailheads.
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He has been gardening for 30 years and also holds the records for heaviest potato, heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of mashed potato, you could make a pumpkin or sweet potato mash or a carrot and parsnip mash.
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You've only seen a snippet of the awfulness to come.
The Sun
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However, you'll soon acquire a number of attachments to change the function of the gun that turn it into a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher.
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Insect life is increasing rapidly, encouraging birds such as snipe, curlew, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, and whinchat.
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A sniper hidden on a roof picked off three of the soldiers on patrol.
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He is strongly but not clumsily built, short-coupled, with none of the snipy speedy range of the valley animal.
The Mountains
