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Usage examples of "snapshoot".

Claggett said enthusiastically, and from his wallet he took the snapshot of a lovely Korean girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, in one of those appealing dresses in which the beltline came just under the breasts, with the rest of the dress falling free in one handsome, unbroken sweep.

While I was cleaning closets the next day, I found a present Paula had given us the year before, a blown-up snapshot of Dante and me on our wedding day, decoupaged to a rectangle of wood.

Louise Fishman dug through her purse and took out a battered red leather wallet and dug through that and pulled out a bent color snapshot.

He snapshot again as Lafarge pistoned up from the floor, running like an Olympic hurdler and leaping desks with a raking stride.

Determined not to surrender to panic, she raised her head and caught her first full glimpse of her tormentor, a tall and bulky man whose faded clothes matched his features, giving him the washed-out appearance of an overexposed snapshot.

You simply the snapshot which the Brindles had sent with the letter out of the envelope.

March 11, 1991, declassified 1998, provides a useful snapshot of desertions from selected Iraqi divisions.

Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.

DNA microarrays because these devices make it possible to take a kind of snapshot of a cell, and see which genes are turned on and which are turned off.

Ghosts in probability-space, waveforms strung taut from waypoint to waypoint, snapshot to snapshot.

Autographed photo of William with George Bush at The Peking Gourmet Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, a harshly flash-lit amateur snapshot, Cozzano and Bush eating Peking duck in shirtsleeves and yukking it up.