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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • For those who like their merriment in one concentrated dose, Fox is rebroadcasting Greatest Christmas Moments of All Time , a compilation of snippets from holiday cartoons, movies, specials, and commercials through the years (Thur.

  • MS' top lawyer is widely quoted as calling the email evidence "snippets taken out of context."


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