snips

/ snɪps /

plural noun

1. a small pair of shears used for cutting sheet metal Also calledtin snips

Example Sentences

“If disrupting a trial was illegal, I’d add it to the list,” Elder Evergreen snips.

From Literature

Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.

From Seattle Times

The sheep lies down, calm, as Begay pulls up a section and snips deftly with even strokes.

From Seattle Times

It took only a few snips of creative editing for Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin to push through a long-term boost to public education funding.

From New York Times

The scientists attached this tag to protein toxins and the gene-editing enzyme Cas9, a large molecular scissors that snips DNA at a location specified by a molecule that guides the scissors to the right place.

From Scientific American