Sentence examples for before snapping back to from inspiring English sources

Another juror nodded off before snapping back to attention.

After the line "life was no prize," suddenly her voice changes, darkens and becomes heavier and soggier, almost drunk, before snapping back to lightness again.

Unless Congress acts this year, the estate tax is scheduled to be repealed in 2010 for one year before snapping back to hit estates of $1 million or more in 2011 — an odd sequence dictated by the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush.

The mum stood with her head in her hands, clearly overcome with guilt, before snapping back to mental, grabbing an axe from the garden and jumping into the car.

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Then once you start walking, every time your leg straightens it slides back into place for just long enough to make you think it's fixed before snapping back to the side with a couple of leg hairs in tow.

The title of the book, "1776," is no mere flourish; the narrative is confined almost entirely to that single year, in which the fledgling Continental Army battled and retreated — mainly retreated — from Boston to New York and then, finally, across a wintry New Jersey to the outskirts of Philadelphia, before snapping back at the battles of Trenton and Princeton.

Mitty here is employed as a picture researcher at Life magazine in modern-day New York; he keeps zoning out, and indulging in reveries of greatness, action and adventure: they are satirically dramatised before our eyes, but keep snapping back to reality like burst balloons.

Things aren't snapping back to normal.

Owen is typically poker-faced for a minute, and then his features suddenly spasm into tears for five seconds before snapping back just as suddenly to that familiar mask of can't be-bothered toughness.

She wept  and went into what she remembers as a trance, for two hours, before snapping back into Human Rights Defender mode and going back to work.