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How to use snap in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Snap means a quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. Example: “We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.”

Examples of snap by meaning

nounA photograph; a snapshot.

  • We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.

nounA thin circular cookie or similar baked good.

  • a ginger snap

nounA very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in...

  • It'll be a snap to get that finished.
  • I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.

nounA small meal, a snack; lunch.

  • When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

nounSomething that is easy or effortless.

  • I’m afraid my course is regarded as a ‘snap.’ Everybody, it seems, can grasp English literature (and produce it).1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Dines—and Tells About It”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The...
  • The job was a snap.2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33

nounSomething of no value.

  • not worth a snap

nounA visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

  • By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51
  • The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238
  • While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120

nounA newsflash.

  • A 'snap' usually becomes a 'newsflash' on air.2013, Paul Chantler, Peter Stewart, Basic Radio Journalism, page 159

More sentences with snap

  • I was startled by the whip of the rope when it finally snapped.From the entry whip
  • The team snapped a 3-game skid with a win over their biggest rival.From the entry skid
  • Get the playing cards out and we'll have a game of snap.From the entry get out
  • We tried to snap him out of it, but something cultlike was going on.From the entry snap out of
  • With her seductive ways, she could have him within the snap of a finger.From the entry snap of a finger
  • I took a happy snap of the class standing in front of the museum.From the entry happy snap
  • He yelled to Steve "Go long!" just as the ball was snapped.From the entry go long
  • She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.From the entry vomit
  • We tensioned the cable until it snapped.From the entry tension
  • The hiker’s shoelace snapped halfway up the trail.From the entry shoelace
  • My offside wing mirror got snapped off.From the entry offside
  • She desperately grabbed at the nearby branches as she heard the branch she was standing on start to snap.From the entry desperately
  • A recent cold snap damaged citrus crops.From the entry cold snap
  • We've had another cold snap and the lake has refrozen.From the entry refreeze
  • He inconsiderately let the twig snap back at her.From the entry inconsiderately
  • The tensional force was so great the cable snapped.From the entry tensional
  • I felt sad that he had left, but I had to snap out of it and get on with my life.From the entry snap out of
  • Snap throw to first, and they’ve got Sanchez hung up.From the entry hung up
  • Their Sunday dinner always included snap beans cooked with fatback.From the entry snap bean
  • On the day that RAIL meets Mick Whelan, it's during a particularly chilly cold snap.2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 30. From the entry cold snap
  • But my guests snapped me back into why we were here.2025, Bruce Vilanch, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote, Chicago Review Press…. From the entry Norman Bates
  • When solved, 93-Across will also make the grid art snap into focus.2024 November 16, Caitlin Lovinger, “Nothing but Blue Skies”, in New York Times. From the entry revealer
  • After what felt like 20 instances, Polley recalls, “I kind of snapped” at Logan Airport in Boston.2023 February 28, David Canfield, “Frances McDormand and Sarah Polley Just Want to Keep Talking”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry sit with
  • 'Dey ain't mine,' Stacey snapped, flicking her head towards the yutes in the bedroom.2022, Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends. From the entry star
  • The extra drop meant the victim's neck snapped, causing a more humane death.2022 November 30, John Gardiner, A Hitchhiker's Triptych. From the entry dance
  • Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: "F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC."2022 April 24, Jake Lambourne, “'They chose violence' – Sky Sports F1 'troll' Hamilton as Brit is lapped by Verstappen in Emilia Romagna…. From the entry choose violence
  • You will also find these diapers marketed as a snap in one diaper.2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry snap-in-one diaper
  • Her heart fluttered, then stilled when May snapped the image away and her voice brittled.2020, Alys Murray, The Magnolia Sisters. From the entry brittle

Meaning of snap

  1. noun A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
  2. noun A sudden break.
  3. noun An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

Full definition of snap

Questions about snap in a sentence

How do you use snap in a sentence?
Snap is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.”
What is a short sentence with snap?
“a ginger snap”
What does snap mean?
Snap means a quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snap (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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