snap back

He connected with some decent shots that snapped back the head of Ramirez.

This means that tangled magnetic-field lines on the Sun suddenly snapped back into place.

“What is disgusting is your disrespect of her,” Dyson snapped back.

Keir Starmer has successfully turned the Labour Party to concentrate on the country not its own woes, but the Abbott saga shows that internal disputes can snap back, exposing painful and ancient roots.

As the field lines snapped back into more stable configurations, huge amounts of energy poured into Earth’s magnetosphere, in a disturbance known as a geomagnetic storm.