Example sentences for: snapping

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

  • The next he is snapping "Shut up!"

  • There are also different varieties of flamenco dance (the tango, fandango, farruca, and zambra) performed to the staccato rhythms and counter-rhythms of the castanets, hand clapping (palmadas), and finger snapping (pitos), as well as furious heel-drumming (zapateado).

  • He carries his tension in his shoulders, so that even when he's sweet he suggests a man on the verge of snapping.

  • Marine jet that killed 20 people in Italy by snapping a ski lift cable nearly struck the ski gondola in which they were riding, according to testimony in a military justice hearing.

  • The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)


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