snipping

How To Use snipping In A Sentence

• The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Remove the birds and carve down one side of the breast bone, snipping the bird in half.
• Gosnell referred to it as "snipping," prosecutors said. Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts Of Murder
• In response to a recent article over at Business Week, "Snipping Credit lines for Small Businesses", which discusses how JPMorgan Chase and others are slashing small-business lending in an effort to shore up their balance sheets, I must, unfortunately, question the use of the word 'snipping'-which, to me, sounds like a tiny trim. Dispatches from TJICistan
• The fix includes snipping underneath the skin to sever the connective tissue, causing the scar to spring up.
• Take the globe produced by snipping Nancy's New Geo map and turn it under your gaze, and you will see where these winds will establish themselves.
• Behind that is broccoli calabrese, which is going to need transplanting soon, I suspect (that, or I'll be snipping very small florets), and to the left is, uh ... not sure. Insert amusing Twitter-related title here.
• Katie, love the idea of snipping the basil with scissors. Basil and Parmesan Rice with Pine Nuts
• When he discovered that some species migrate hundreds of miles a year, he began snipping minute samples of wing tissue from bats he caught in mist nets.
• He was snipping very cautiously at the head of this almost bald guy who was sitting there like a gonk. Times, Sunday Times