snapped
Example Sentences
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This is a function of America’s guardrail-deprived resale market, in which tickets are snapped up at face value then legally resold at extortionate prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Instead, they are six games behind Washington for the eighth playoff spot after a six-game losing streak ahead of the trade deadline that was finally snapped with a win at Portland on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
As for their Pennsylvania property, the couple snapped that up for just $225,000 in 1983, shortly before “The Cosby Show” began airing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
As he approached the peak of Everest in May 2019, he snapped a photo of a snaking queue of climbers all waiting to reach the summit.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Looking at Papa like she couldn’t believe what she had heard, she snapped, “Maybe we’d better just quit farming and start catching monkeys.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
