snips
/ (snɪps) /
a small pair of shears used for cutting sheet metal: Also called: tin snips
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How to use snips in a sentence
After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the window and opens it.
Loyalties (Fifth Series Plays) | John GalsworthyTo make one complete man out of all this vast collection of snips and snippets of humanity.
Prose Fancies | Richard Le GallienneThe reason that there is more snips are the same shining very colored rid of no round color.
Tender Buttons | Gertrude SteinThey do not hear the men beyond their parapets lying on their stomachs and busily cutting the wires with their snips.
Training for the Trenches | Leslie VickersSo th' punchers got to totin' wire-snips, an' when they runs up agin a fence they cuts down half a mile or so.
Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford
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