Example sentences for: snipped

How can you use “snipped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The occasion was Cornell's discovery of a curious box by Max Ernst, La femme cent têtes , that consists of collages made out of snipped and pasted cuttings from 19 th century engravings, fitted wickedly together to form a semipornographic narrative.

  • Another, related, bright spot was the 1920s' movement that has come to be called Precisionism, which celebrated American industrialism as a new religion (Sheeler called one of his paintings of Henry Ford's River Rouge plant My Egypt ). And, finally, the greatest and most distinctively American modern school was Abstract Expressionism, which blossomed after World War II and is snipped in mid-bloom by the end of the exhibition.

  • "As sick as it sounds," he says, "they would even be a good investment" (though not as good as Marilyn Monroe's nipples--rumored to have been snipped off during her autopsy, along with some locks of hair--which White estimates "could bring well over $25,000").

  • Apparently, Lester doesn't realize that snipped roses are garden-variety symbols of castration, or he'd know what he has lost.


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