Such fun they had with the flowers, snipping and weeding and watering, their two gossipy sunbonnets close together!
With brain or scissors every woman is snipping and clipping and cutting over other people's clothes to fit her figure; real clothes or clothes existent only in the fashion papers or her dressmaker's brain, but what is the difference?
When I was little Mother showed me how to cut fancy cut-out designs with scissors by folding a square piece of paper over and over and then snipping bits off the edge here and there.
Bits of wall paper design cut out in ovals and oblongs, fringed by snipping with the scissors, made rugs for the house.
This done, he led the way into one of the sunken pits where the melons were growing, and after reaching in among them and snipping off a runner or two he routed out a slug and killed it.
Yes," said the man, and they saw that he was working with his left hand now, snipping at the stubbly beard with the scissors, while with the other he held his moustache back to keep it from being cut.
In the rose garden, which had taken the place of the old fernery, he could see Irene snipping and pruning, with a little basket on her arm.
Her ladyship was busy, in a pair of white kid gloves, snippingoff faded leaves and flowers, and she left her occupation to greet her visitor.
Mr. Andrews bowed, and Missy filled up the gap in the conversation by snipping off some more dead leaves.
He does seem rather young to send among strangers," she replied coldly, snipping down a fading branch of the climbing rose, and throwing it aside.
Way underneath, close to their necks, we found these little locks, that by some work and careful snipping we managed to get quite free of burs, so I cut them off to preserve.
I won't believe it, Jacky," said Mrs Glaire, snipping off sound leaves and blossoms in her agitation.
Haven't I been poked in the ribs every fifteen minutes for the conductor to amuse himself by snipping off the ends of my railroad tickets?
Smaller girls are snipping the few waste pieces, and one little girl at the end of the table is filling a fracture pillow with the snips.
Girls of the lower grades are snipping waste pieces for fracture pillows and working with the older girls who are cutting hospital bed shirts, Troy, New York.
Having done this, she seemed to forget us and drifted away among the flowers, touching some gently as she passed, snipping a dead leaf here and arranging a misplaced branch there.
Sometimes it can be conquered by snipping the infected leaves, but if it seizes an entire bed, the necessary evil of spraying with Bordeaux mixture must be resorted to, as in the case of fungus-spotted hollyhocks.
In the babe it protrudes beyond the labiæ and snipping off the head forms female circumcision.
Bob and Tom doing the looking on, and Mary and Jean smoothing and snipping the bits for the tail, and making the tassel for the end.
One may sometimes touch the sitting bird, and, when off, she flutters about very close to the intruder, sneezing violently and snipping her mandibles like fairy scissors.
Another performer may give each note a double character so that the whole may sound like the snipping of a barber's shears: Chulip chulip chulip chulip chulip.
And it loves the sun,' said her mother, who was snipping off dead roses close by; 'it always turns to look at it.
Here mother stopped snipping at her rose-trees, and came up to one of the sunflowers.
Why need the snipping of ribbon, as you describe it, interfere with the development of the higher life?
What is the good of her learning all this Euclid and French, and robbing herself of some of her rest to get time for her studies, if she is to spend her life in snipping off lengths of ribbon and tape from one end of the year to the other?
A snipping machine or a teazer may also be used for somewhat similar purposes, and for opening out ropes and similar close textures.
The door closed again; again that snipping sound as it was relocked--and then the round, white ray of Jimmie Dale's flashlight circled his surroundings.
When they had finished washing the dishes the girl glanced toward the buckskin that wassnipping grass in the clearing: "It's time we were going.
And Phronsie must come," said Polly, snipping away to get the paper the right width.
Each snipping off is of course followed by an inrush of air.
Prior to every snippingthe same process is gone through, no flask being opened without the previous cleansing of the pliers by the flame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
