Example sentences for: snapped

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

  • Any opportunity that straightforward would probably have been snapped up already.

  • ER apparently avoided confrontation, but kept two nasty dogs, who snapped at journalists and senators; the larger of them actually bit the Canadian prime minister.

  • In case you're one of those old-fashioned rock fans who doesn't read the financial press, let me explain: Several weeks back, $55 million worth of David Bowie was put on the market and Prudential snapped it up in minutes.

  • It was snapped out loud and clear, after the fashion of the proper British soldier, with none of the slurring so characteristic of the American using it as an adjective.

  • To his deputy, carefully doling hot water from a canteen cup into a row of small tins, he snapped, “Mind the measuring now, there's twenty-fxxxing-four to serve 'ere!”


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