Snapping
['snæpiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snap
(-) a. & n. from Snap, v.
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Examples
- Her cross-grained pet greyhound was in the room, and I fully expected a barking and snapping reception. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As a result it was no uncommon thing to see bright sparks snapping between the chandelier and the lighting wires during a sharp thunder-storm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I can't bear you to call her that,' returned Miss Wren, snapping her fingers in a volley of impatient snaps, 'for I don't like Hexam. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To be anxious about a soul that is always snapping at you must be left to the saints of the earth; and Mary was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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