Example Sentences

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They walk through the elevator doors at quitting time, then immediately back in to start the day, as if someone has snipped off the rest of life and twisted the remainder into a Möbius strip.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

So far the House has passed eleven regular appropriation bills totaling $32.8 billion, has snipped $1.8 billion out of the President's budget.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she calms herself she finds she has snipped her prize butterfly orchid.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez