snip
verb (used with object)
to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
had snipped
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past perfectof snip.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Especially when you went to a late afternoon show and emerged onto Colorado Boulevard and City Hall was all lit up like somehow Pasadena had snipped off a tiny corner of Paris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
Upon his return next day he learned that souvenir hunters had snipped off five of the buttons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had to be buried with a hat on because souvenir hunters had snipped off all his hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the trees were cut in half, as though a huge pair of pliers had snipped off the tops.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
My grandmother made me a tiny toothbrush, using a matchstick for the handle, and into this she stuck little bits of bristle that she had snipped off one of her hairbrushes.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
