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snap up example sentences
snap up
1. Its long jaws, full of jagged teeth, were large enough to snap up fifty grown men in one bite
2. I saw the customer’s head snap up then, and he began sniffing wildly and glaring at the meat
3. Oh, it would be all I should ask! And I'd rather have it than any title such as girls snap up so readily, and find nothing behind
4. Just as it was about to snap up the poor fisherman, the man–eater saw its new adversary, repositioned itself on its belly, and headed swiftly toward him
5. Even if the board cannot immediately retrieve its mistakes, bring in new managers or just get back on its old track, there is a good chance somebody will be waiting to snap up the business in a takeover
6. Buffett likes to snap up a stock when a scandal, big loss, or other bad news passes over it like a storm cloud—as when he bought Coca-Cola soon after its disastrous rollout of “New Coke” and the market crash of 1987
7. Instead, you’d snap up the adjacent lot because of its identical beauty and the fact that it’s selling at 60 percent less than what you paid for the first parcel
8. He told him to take a piece of bread, to stick a pin in it, and throw it to one of those hungry dogs who snap up anything without biting it, and then to watch and see what would happen