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"Snap" in a Sentence (80 examples)
A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
The rubber band broke with a vicious snap.
This new camera is a snap to use.
It's a snap once you get the hang of it.
Mother closed her purse with a snap.
Truthfully, if I'd said I didn't have any regrets over my snap decision I'd have been lying.
In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart.
Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you.
Grabbing him by the shoulders, she shook him and yelled, "Snap out of it!"
Tom certainly is good at making snap decisions.
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We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.
a ginger snap
It'll be a snap to get that finished.
I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.
According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.
When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.
up rises a Cunning Snap, then at the Board, who desir'd to be Inform'd
He's a nimble fellow, / And alike skill'd in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.
A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages, where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance. A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price, which may in an instant make him a fortune […]
The Profs they lead a jolly life, jolly life, / They're free from every care and strife, care and strife. / They make the studes, poor studes fall into line; / I wish the Profs' soft snap were mine.
I’m afraid my course is regarded as a ‘snap.’ Everybody, it seems, can grasp English literature (and produce it).
The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.
not worth a snap
By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.
The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.
While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.
“[…] What’s your snap?” she asks. “Oh here.” He jerks for his phone not trying to test her patience or invitation. They trade info. “Cool,” she comments and memorizes his username.
In addition to compliments (“that’s hot!”) and direct propositions (“please post a full frontal shot”), commenters often leave invitations on users’ posts to direct message them (“DM me!”), follow their account (“follow me”) or exchange usernames for the ephemeral social messaging service, Snapchat (“snap: @readyforyou”, “what’s your snap?”).
He asked for my snap one day so I gave it to him, but strictly as friends and he knew that.
A 'snap' usually becomes a 'newsflash' on air. Keep snaps short, only run them when news is really 'hot', and try not to break a story within a few minutes of the bulletin unless it is top priority.
[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”
The subcategory of snaps or rankouts often follows the formula of “Your mother's like——; she——,” or “Your mother's so——, she——.” Examples are “Your mother's like a door-knob; everyone gets a turn” and “Your mother's so low, she could play handball on the curb.”
Snap is another music style that came out of Atlanta. Snap is an early- to mid-2000s hip hop style derived from crunk.
He snapped his stick in anger.
If you bend it too much, it will snap.
But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.
Blazing firewood snaps.
A dog snaps at a passenger. A fish snaps at the bait.
She snapped at the chance to appear on television.
He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.
She should take a break before she snaps.
He was in the Thunderbirds before the war. One of the best combat pilots in 'Nam. Snapped. No doubt about it.
At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead. In I&T, their opposite numbers began beating each other to death with keyboards, chairs, and even computer monitors while their Chief masticated her husband's digits.
The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.
A surly, ill-bred Lord, That chides, and snaps her up at ev'ry Word
to snap a fastener
to snap a whip
Three more birds came in, and as each took up his roosting place, the old bird repeated his challenge by snapping his beak at them.
"Time's up!" said Mr. Peeble, snapping his watch.
MacMorian[…] snapped his fingers repeatedly.
The soldiers snapped to attention as the colonel entered the room.
Veiksaar's half-baked .aic was running the camera feeds, and traced the path of destruction beginning in the workroom with brutal efficiency. The views snapped from scene to scene on five second intervals, and it was like watching an interpolation of every snuff film ever made.
He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.
I arrive at the station in time to snap a few pictures and observe my fellow passengers.
As I set myself up the round table, my phone lit up with a few notifications on Snapchat. Gustin snapped me a few pictures of the three boys in the park.
Did you know she just joined Snapchat? Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.
He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.
The gun snapped.
Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!
—Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!
a snap judgment or decision
a snap political convention
Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society
Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.
Most of the current proposals to eliminate soda from SNAP come from reliably Republican states, but the partisan lines aren’t straightforward.
According to the Food Research and Action Center, 39 percent of children, 20 percent of seniors and 10 percent of disabled people across the country depend on SNAP to put food on their tables each month.
Others pointed to messages on Snap, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with doctored clips of “news reports” saying that voting was rigged where they lived and said, Why even bother voting?
Do you have snap? That at least has voice messages we could trade without trading numbers..ya know, in case im a psycho
“What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
“What’s your Snap handle? We should become friends.”
That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??
The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days.
“Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.
“What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
“I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”
“Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”
I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask^([sic]) me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.
Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. […] One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.
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