Example sentences for: snippets

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

  • A particular feature of GeneChip arrays is that each transcript is probed by many short snippets of sequence, instead of a single longer probe as in cDNA arrays [ 1, 2, 3].

  • The "Gesture Wall," for instance, puts a little zip of electricity through you, which makes you intelligible to some sensors in front of you, which means you can "play" snippets of music and sound by gesticulating.

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • The papers note that the two committee lawyers used snippets from President Clinton's Jones case deposition and his appearance before the Starr grand jury as well as from the Linda Tripp tapes of Monica Lewinsky.

  • Children--and, in earlier times, illiterates--often took snippets of liturgical texts which they had heard in church on Sunday, adapting sing-song versions of them for their own irreligious and irreverent use on Monday.


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