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Example sentences for "snapped"

Lexicographically close words:
snaking; snaky; snap; snapdragon; snapdragons; snapper; snappers; snapping; snappish; snappy
  1. But Zora was already striding on ahead, and was far up the red road when the great mules galloped into sight and the long whip snapped above their backs.

  2. He had the build and look of the fanatic: thin to emancipation; brown; brilliant-eyed; his words snapped in nervous energy and rang in awful earnestness.

  3. Change at Charlotte," he snapped as he went on.

  4. Mr. Smith snapped his fingers and rang the bell.

  5. Great was the astonishment of the British at being thus snapped up by a Yankee privateer almost under the guns of the Rock of Gibraltar.

  6. While they were tugging at her, a huge hawser snapped with a report like a cannon, and the flying ends killed two men and seriously wounded five others.

  7. While the British thus snapped up an American man-of-war cruising at their harbors' mouths, the Americans were equally fortunate in capturing a British brig of fourteen guns off the coast of Maine.

  8. Now and then a gentleman more thoughtless or less cultured than the rest snapped his watch-case in the very face of the speaker, by accident, let us hope.

  9. Could it be the broad fireplace, wherein blazed and snapped a veritable back-log?

  10. And she snapped her fingers scornfully and defiantly.

  11. Meantime nothing in the life of Traquair House changed or stopped, because Robert Campbell's life had been snapped into two parts.

  12. With a tug Stan severed the heavy wire and felt it go twisting away into the darkness, which had suddenly become very black because all of the lights in and around the villa had snapped off.

  13. Allison snapped an order at the driver and the fellow put a shoulder against the next barrel.

  14. He snapped a salute and turned to his crew.

  15. He snapped a release to his mates and waited for them to get off.

  16. He got the password and snapped permission to advance.

  17. Can the chatter and get going," snapped a voice from operations.

  18. When there was no answer he caught up a rifle, snapped an order to one of the others, and headed off down the picket line.

  19. The voice from the control tower snapped off.

  20. When she snapped off the ground in a manner that would have done credit to a Lightning, he began to grin and mumble to himself.

  21. At once the man ahead of O'Malley clicked his heels and snapped a smart salute.

  22. Stan snapped a salute, not knowing exactly why he did it.

  23. There was a loud scream from both the sisters as the iron ring, worn through by long rubbing, finally snapped asunder.

  24. Mrs. Silver snapped the catch of the leash, and Gammire departed in the likeness of a ragged black streak.

  25. They did not even notice her expression when Mr. Atwater snapped on the light, in order to read; and she went quietly out of the library and up the stairs to her own room.

  26. It continued just long enough for the Earthmen to get used to it, then it snapped off, and they went flying up toward the ceiling as it continued upward under its own momentum.

  27. Suddenly, there loomed before them the dim bulk of the star, a disc already, and Arcot snapped the ship over to the molecular motion drive at once.

  28. The door snapped shut, and the ship shot toward the city.

  29. Then he snapped the ship into full visibility.

  30. His fingers pushed a brilliant red switch--there was a dull, muffled thud as a huge relay snapped shut.

  31. Arcot snapped the ship into invisibility and darted to one side.

  32. Then Arcot snapped off the lights of the control room, and in a moment his eyes had become accustomed to the dim lights.

  33. Arcot and Morey, taking the hint, snapped to attention and delivered a precise military salute.

  34. Suddenly the air snapped and they were traveling at low speed under the drive of the space-strain apparatus.

  35. Arcot snapped off the drive and turned on the invisibility apparatus.

  36. The ship filled with the strain of flowing energy, and sparks snapped in the air of the control room as they raced at an inconceivable speed through the darkness of intergalactic space.

  37. Then both Earthmen snapped on their invisibility units.

  38. Betty snapped herself out of her maid's hands, flung herself into a wrapper and went to seek the Burgrave.

  39. Then she snapped at her niece: "And you haven't even the intelligence to be eighteen yet, and be of some use for once in your life!

  40. Scotty snapped the picture and processed it.

  41. He snapped the cover back in place and ran to join Scotty, who was already in the boat.

  42. I mean that something has snapped the bond which bound me to you.

  43. Looking up, Mr. Meriton perceived that the vessel had literally snapped asunder.

  44. The vessel soon snapped asunder, and many of her stores were recovered by the divers.

  45. Eventually, an immense wave, breaking on deck, snapped the iron-work and timbers asunder, as though they had been brittle as glass.

  46. The bow snapped from the foremast, the bowsprit flew through the air up to the foretopmast, and the funnel, toppling overboard, dragged in its rear the starboard paddle-box and boat.

  47. But a terrible billow again came over them, and this time two of their oars were snapped to pieces.

  48. And then Hananiah, encouraged by his meekness, proceeded to violence, tore the yoke off his shoulders and snapped it in two, reiterating his prophecy.

  49. The head is hanging by a thread, but it is not yet snapped or broken off from the stem.

  50. Before the fight Sirayo had taken the long throwing assegai from Inyami and snapped the haft across his knee within three feet of the blade.

  51. The young Boer placed his foot against the rim, exerted his strength, and snapped the strong hide.

  52. She leaned toward the lighter-flame O'Leary had snapped into being.

  53. The driver, a young lieutenant, slid back the duraglass canopy for him to climb in, then snapped it into place when he had strapped himself into his seat, and hit the controls.

  54. Then he completed the operation, snapped it shut, and put it away.

  55. With that, he selected a cigarette from his case, offered it to Paula, and snapped his lighter.

  56. While the two guards took up a position before them, curved swords, snapped from their belt hooks, ready in their hands.

  57. A neck snapped about; a head was lowered in his direction.

  58. Ross snapped off the torch, and they lay together in the dark, the half-rotten pile of weed holding them.

  59. You'll get the place snapped up," said Johnson.

  60. That shop at the corner's bound to be snapped up if he don't look out.

  61. Morton snapped his big jaw as if to shut in impulsive words.

  62. So that is where I got my big mouth, and I tell you right now I wouldn't trade it for anything anybody else has got," concluded Grandfather Frog, as he snapped up a foolish green fly who came too near.

  63. Head first through his doorway plunged Johnny, and Old Man Coyote's teeth snapped together on nothing.

  64. He was thinking of this one day when a larger fish came within reach, and almost without realizing what he was doing Great-grandfather snapped at and caught him.

  65. Carry's northern friends and snapped the thread asunder that bound her to them.

  66. Golden threads; some destined to be spun out and to become solidly intertwined; others to be hopelessly entangled or cruelly snapped asunder by the inexorable Fates.

  67. These are snapped up as the bird glides stealthily along the hedgerows or on the outskirts of some wood.

  68. Sometimes it looks as if it were turning a summersault in the air, which is always a sign that it has disturbed a beetle in its flight and snapped him up.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.