Example sentences for: snapping

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

  • (Imagine me snapping my fingers, but in an attractive Italian suit and a better apartment.)

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • When tractors haul the fishing fleet ashore, sunbathers jump from their towels to gape at the catch — 1-meter (3-foot) eels, still flapping; foot-long, spiny lobsters still snapping; and bucketloads of flat and silver fish.

  • The next he is snapping "Shut up!"


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