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Example sentences for: snapping

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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.)
Here is the text (superimposed on a photograph of the American flag snapping in a stiff breeze):
He carries his tension in his shoulders, so that even when he's sweet he suggests a man on the verge of snapping.
A much-used photograph in the British press was of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams with a camera to his eye, snapping the media at the opening ceremony for the new executive.
Thanks to first-rate sound equipment, though, we hear everything they hear--especially a snapping of branches in the dark outside their tent that escalates into an omnidirectional clatter.