In this method a few only of the buds are permitted to mature; the rest being snipped off with a pair of scissors as early as possible.
If a scald, the vesicle should be first pierced with a needle, or what is better, snipped with a pair of scissors, and the water which it contains should be then gently squeezed out.
He snipped the message from his tail, unrolled it, and read: "Arnaux left Chicago this morning at 4 A.
Deftly he snipped the threads and handed the roll to the banker.
His reply shot out of his smile like a snipped bread pellet "D'you remember, in Frazer, the tribe that buries the bride up to the waist?
Just let me put a pin here in this fold of lace," and expertly she reefed up the last fold of rose-point that Miss Lindsey had snipped down in a hurried finish of her remodeling.
Polly, a minute afterward, and looking across the table while she snipped off a little piece of the white frosting from her slice, wishing the whole world was made of cake with white on top, and wondering how long she could make hers last.
I snipped off two or three of the terminal fern-fronds on which I had placed a few advanced larvæ.
This clever man then hastened on And bought a pair of shears, But when he tried to cut with them, He snipped off both his ears.
Presently he took a fowl, snipped off its head and sprinkled its blood upon the image, and so again with another and another fowl.
This accomplished, with a pair of scissors the fibrinous tumors were snipped off.
Should, however, the growth be of any size, it should be snipped off with a pair of probe-pointed scissors; and the lunar caustic ought then to be applied and repeated when the bleeding has entirely ceased.
And one day, when Abbie went to the clothes-press to get the cookie-pail, Bruce Sanders snipped the orange from the tree.
Magin took a cigar out of his pocket, snipped off the end with a patent cutter, lighted it, and regarded the smoke with a growing look of amusement.
As the thick coil tumbled over her shoulders, the directress of ceremonies deliberately selected a light inner tress and snipped it off.
It was impossible to know what she was thinking; she was apparently quite accustomed to strangers who dressed her in low-cut evening dresses and snipped her hair and spent her money.
With pursed lips Suzanne snipped and pinched, while Biscuits followed her every motion and Evangeline silently adjusted herself to each new position as Suzanne pulled and pushed her arms and neck about.
She took up a creamy rose and snipped off a fragment of stalk over the saucer.
Sort of snipped off the end of what he was saying and left it hanging, if you follow me.
I hate to confess it, but it wasn't so much splendid old me he had been so delighted to see as any old body to whom he could unloose his tongue without having the end of his nose snipped off.
A slight colour glowed under the white skin of her cheeks as Farris entered with the fruit; she lifted a translucent cluster of grapes from the dish, snipped it in half with the silver scissors, glanced at her husband and laughed.
Jeff reached through the slit for one of the many-bladed knives, opened the scissors, and carefully snipped the tangled wool off.
As he did so, he brushed the grill with his trousers, caught a loose thread which was always kept purposely loosened, and snipped it off with the scissors that the clasp knife also contained.
Then a picture was pasted in the center on one side to ornament it and the ends of the paper were snipped evenly in points.
Like her in this, Miss Ellinor Hoffman now placidly snipped and ripped the basting threads, unraveled them patiently, and set to work afresh.
If a single eyelash, it may be snipped off with scissors close to the margin of the eyelid or pulled out by the root with a pair of flat-bladed forceps.
It should be snipped off with scissors and the conjunctiva drawn together over its base.
And he took Quiver up in his arms, and stretching out his wings, though not so as to hurt them, snipped at them with a big sharp pair of scissors.
And so Quiver lived all through the summer and the autumn till the winter came round again, and all this time whenever his wings began to grow longer, Barnes snipped them short again.
The old gentleman took him on his knee, and allowed him to touch his whiskers, which were crisp and soft, and snipped pieces of white paper into the shapes of trees and animals and houses, with a little pair of scissors.
He snipped them away with the scissors, and, climbing the stile with heavy feet, surrendered them to May.
A bullet snipped his hat from his head; and, striking the ceiling of the cave-home, dropped to the floor with a dull clatter.
A sharp pat on the stone window frame beside him, after the bullet had snipped off the tip of his left ear, caused Mr. Marquand to draw back suddenly.
Lord Orrel had a bit of his left ear snipped off, and the president got a flesh wound just below the left shoulder.
He took the proffered cigar as he spoke, snipped the end, and lit it.
The hatchway was accordingly opened, and immediately dense volumes of smoke arose, and almost stifled me where I remained lashed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
