Taking a photo, say

Usage examples of snapping.

For the mammals of Antarctica, spring was made more interesting by the possibility that from any snowbank there might suddenly erupt a clutch of ravenous allosaur chicks, snapping and squabbling in pursuit of their first meal.

He had swiveled to his extreme left to watch the antics of a superbly sailed Rhodian galley some distance off his stern when his own huge ship lurched, groaned, shuddered convulsively, and the sounds of many oars snapping off like twigs became intermingled with cries of dismay and alarm.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

The door opened, and the little drummer, looking like a rather lewd schoolteacher, came in brassily snapping her fingers.

Marat came through the gates, but the wounded herdbane whipped around at the sudden motion, snapping and lashing with its brassy beak, driving the Marat back.

The image of my heart compressing to the flatness of a plate, my lungs exhaling first air, then blood, then bronchioles, alveoli snapping, my colon popping like a pea, such images tended to wipe out all thoughts of the hereafter with obsessions of the dangers in the here and now.

The muscles in his throat and the strengthened bone of his spinal column prevented Cati from actually snapping his neck, but there was littlie he could do to stop the closure of his windpipe.

Snapping back from a forward stoop, The Shadow hoisted the bulky magnate in mid-air.

He was ashamed of himself for snapping at Malibu, but the pressure was on for some high performance.

Then Marchand was over him, all blood-red eyes and lethal fangs, snapping for the kill even as Eduard struggled to hold him away.

The tri barreled power guns raking Molt hiding places with counterfire cycled so quickly that, like droplets of water in a fountain, the individual cyan flashes seemed to hang in the air instead of snapping light-quick across the valley.

She strapped the babies to her chest to go up on deck, where they mouthed their fists and stared wide-eyed at the great expanses of snapping white sail.

Thiadbold walked toward them through the overgrazed meadow, withered grass snapping under his feet.

Captain Thiadbold walked toward them through the overgrazed meadow, withered grass snapping under his feet.

But the panga hit him across the leg, cutting muscle and snapping the femur.