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snap off

v. break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" [syn: break, break off]

Usage examples of "snap off".

Also they had a tendency to snap off trees and whap people to death, then eat them.

But Sanglant reached them first only to have the old priest stagger to his feet, snap off the haft of the arrow embedded in his chest, and scramble out of reach of prince and enchanter alike.

He leaned over to snap off a cilia twig from a nearby bush, tossing it into the fibers as they passed.

He set aside the dispatch and reached for the next, the contents of which caused him to snap off his cushions with a thoroughly uncharacteristic oath.

Her end would be painful, he vowed, as he drew breath to snap off the phrase that would release his gathered death spell.

He desperately wanted to snap off a proton torpedo to shake up their formation, to put extra energy into his forward shields, but the TIE fighter didn't give him either option.

It required but a few moments to snap off an armful of fairly dry wood, which he threw back up onto the wall.

Kahlan's jaw dropped as she saw it snap off a handful of arrows that stuck out of its chest.