The phrase "a snap at the" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts where someone is making a quick or sharp remark, but the phrase needs to be part of a larger expression to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "She took a snap at the suggestion, dismissing it without a second thought."
Alternatives: "a jab at the" or "a dig at the".
He tried to give his economic pronouncements a "snap at the end," he said, "like Mark Twain".
Calvin Johnson scored on a 32-yard run midway through the fourth quarter, capping a 93-yard drive that began after Garcia fumbled a snap at the Lions' 1. "We were our own worst enemy at crucial times," said Garcia, who had not committed a turnover in his first six games with the Buccaneers (4-3).
Russell describes being shocked by "images so unrelievedly awful that the mind shut with a snap at the sight of them.
A pitcher in throwing a curve ball is compelled to supinate his wrist with a snap at the end of his delivery.
You'll see it has a snap at the top where it fastens to keep your hair in place.
Moving over the nucleus nanometer by nanometer, taking a snap at each stop, the machine then produces an image of the nuclear molecules.
When Cauchetier began taking set photographs in the late 1950s, the job was to stand unobtrusively next to the cameraman, take a quick snap at the end of a scene and make yourself scarce.
When the parliamentary opposition engineered a snap election at the end of November, Kielsen led Siumut to the polls, where it captured about 34 percent of the vote, compared with about 33 percent for the chief opposition party, Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA).
BRITONS shivered through a cold snap at the start of this week when temperatures plunged to unseasonable lows and snow dusted much of the northern half of the country.
After taking a shotgun snap at the Panthers' 2-yard line, the rookie out of Florida State lofted a fade pass over a pair of confused defenders and Johnson hauled it in.
"And then he and everybody at the sign-up table said, 'Just do it.' " Making a snap decision at the sound of a well-known slogan, she did.
