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Example sentences for "snips"

Lexicographically close words:
snipes; sniping; snipped; snipping; snippy; snitch; sniveling; snivelled; snivelling; snob
  1. I don't see how you could, with such snips of paper.

  2. When he made a few snips Little Red-cap appeared, and after a few more snips she jumped out and cried, "Oh dear, how frightened I have been!

  3. This year, since she got in with them Lillianthal girls, Miriam has to have Europe, and Ray wants to stay home so with snips like Louie Ruah she can run with.

  4. It's those yellow novels, and that gang of drugstore snips you let her run with will be her ruination.

  5. When he only snips with those scissors up in the air he snips and cuts out nothing but silk and satin', said he.

  6. There does not seem to be much in a few snips with a pair of big scissors; but the young leader's use of those cutting implements had completely changed the state of affairs in the little party.

  7. Our candy was to be sold for a cent a stick, but the sticks were not scanty little snips by any means.

  8. The paper is cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors.

  9. Short as the two snips are, you can distinctly see the same slight curve in each.

  10. Cut snips through the centre with scissors and unfold.

  11. So Jimsi made a white table cloth from the Magic Book’s paper and cut rounds for plates and funny snips of three cornered wall paper bits for sandwiches.

  12. The plate fleets go and come,” said I, “reasonably well; but the foreigners that come in for their snips have half spoiled the trade.

  13. If kept in good working order twelve-inch snips will cut 18-gauge galvanized or black iron.

  14. Snips are from ten to fourteen inches in length.

  15. Sheet metal snips for cutting sheet metal properly belong with the iron working tools.

  16. Another letter, also with broken seal, I laid open and read while Snips heated his irons and gazed out of the breezy window, where, with fife and drum, I could hear the garrison marching out for exercise and practice.

  17. Which he swore he knew how to accomplish; so I took my letters from the bed and disposed myself in a chair to peruse them while Snips should remain busy with his shears.

  18. When Snips had powdered me and had tied my club with a queue-ribbon of his proper selection, he patched my cheek-bone where a thorn had torn me, and stood a-twirling his iron as though lost in admiration of his handiwork.

  19. Young Master Snips was now a-drying of my hair.

  20. The Real Estate man, having secured his block of, say, 250 lots, has his map drawn with the block coloured and issues the map, probably with a booklet designed to demonstrate that his lots are the snippiest of all the snips in that town.

  21. As you are being run to the estate where the most attractive snips are to be shown you the Real Estate man tells you marvellous stories of profits made out of lots purchased on an estate just this side of the one you are going to.

  22. Then with successive snips of the scissors he divides the tendon on the hook, close to its sclerotic margin.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chips; complement; deckhand; fireman; gunner; hand; hatchet; jackknife; navigator; pick; purser; roustabout; snip; sparks; steward; stewardess; stoker; tool; watch; yeoman