Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: snapping
IPA transcription: [sn'æpɪŋ]
Pronunciations of snapping
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Usage examples
  • The repetition irritated the girl, whose nerves were strained to snapping point.
  • “Very truly the devil’s,” growled Larry, snapping his cigarette case viciously.
  • By what strange alienation of the brain, by what sudden snapping of the sense had madness come?
  • With a hiss it curves its neck and turns the foil upwards, snapping and biting at its tormentors.
  • They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.
  • All these soldier police were mounted and armed, and their snapping black eyes were filled with hatred for Apaches.
  • When on the subject he would stride restlessly up and down the room, snapping out short, sharp sentences of protest and criticism.
  • The lively little freshwater herring as yet suspect no danger; they are in constant motion, occupied in snapping up the fallen, half-drowned insects.
  • And then something gave, there was a momentary feeling of nausea, a sharp click as of the snapping of a steel wire, and I stood with my back against the wall of the cave facing my unknown foe.
  • "Tom was continually frightening me with it, I remember." As if to be rid of unwelcome memories she shut her mouth tight, even as she shut Jack back into his box, snapping the spring into place.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording BDSM, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording American football, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Xenu, License CC BY-SA 4.0