Definition of snippet
:a small part, piece, or thing;
especially
:a brief quotable passage
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Examples of snippet in a Sentence
snippets from the author's newest novel
read them a snippet of his latest poem
Recent Examples of snippet from the Web
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There was no gun, but there were plenty of photos and video snippets on social media.
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Mueller had previously supplied snippets of the two-hour recording to his attorneys to bolster his claim.
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Players would walk up, tap a button, listen to a story snippet play out, and move on.
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Ian Bassingthwaigthe’s debut novel, Live from Cairo, is a snippet of their lives.
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Because typing Chinese characters is more laborious than Western ones, people also tend to use voice-recognition services more often than in the West, so firms have more voice snippets with which to improve speech offerings.
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Or, certainly, some part of Hamlet: snippets from the seven famous soliloquies, a brooding man holding a skull, Reviving Ophelia.
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Here's snippet from Rob Mahoney's profile of Tatum.
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One snippet of overheard conversation suggested things had not gone well.
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Origin and Etymology of snippet
snippet Synonyms
Synonyms
atom, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, bit, speck, tittleRelated Words
ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, haet [chiefly Scottish], halfpenny, ha'penny, iota, jot, kenning [chiefly Scottish], lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit; bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit); fragment, part, portion, section; chip, flake, shard, shiver, sliver, splinter; clipping, paring, shaving; smithereensNear Antonyms
chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slab; abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealthSNIPPET Defined for English Language Learners
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