Example sentences for: snippets

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

  • 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.

  • This is probably the consequence of various sequence-dependent effects: first, the difference in stacking energies of single-stranded snippets between the PM and the MM sequences can easily be in the range of the gain in binding energies; second, there are certainly kinetic effects as the hybridizations are not carried to complete equilibrium; and third, there is always the possibility of sequence-dependent synthesis efficiencies.

  • 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.

  • Halévy recorded snippets of Degas' imperious orders: "And you, Mademoiselle Henriette, bend your head--more--still more.

  • 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.


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