snap to attention
Example Sentences
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Patsy’s husband, an urban planner, was the first to snap to attention.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
It’s interesting, though, to see how the audience and the other actors snap to attention in the presence of a vividly inhabited character.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017
Someday it may be possible to give people with such warning signs drugs that rescue p53, getting their cellular guardians to snap to attention and wipe out the cancer before it ever gets started.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 5, 2016
But it was another Chinese launch three years ago that made the Pentagon really snap to attention, opening up the possibility that outer space would become a new front in modern warfare.
From Washington Post • May 9, 2016
I snap to attention as the door opens.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
