Sentence examples for close to snapping from inspiring English sources

Cardiff City came close to snapping up Ince last summer, but a last minute change of heart scuppered the £8m deal.

Zeile said he did not want to be ejected, and neither did Leiter, though he admitted he was "that close" to snapping.

He arranges his figures in the hostile landscape so that they seem overmastered by it; then he holds the shots longer than expected, until menace builds up in the surrounding silence and our nerves are close to snapping.

He became foreign minister in early 1999 at a time when Greece's relationship with the western world was on a knife-edge because of a furious popular reaction to NATO's bombing of Serbia—and tension with Turknife-edge becausenapping.Where his father was by temperament coffrontational, the younger Papandreou is more inclined to build bridges and stress the positive.

He also came close to snapping his cue during his second-round match against Matthew Stevens.

He came close to snapping his cue during his second-round match against Matthew Stevens and was then warned for making an obscene gesture in frustration.

I would have asked, but by the time I got close to snap a pic he darted off into the woods like some sort of possessed direwolf.

Obviously, hearing Toad grow closer and closer to snapping completely and murdering his best friend was, to me and my sister, the funniest thing in the world.

Before: Spiegel's strategy has always been to go with his instincts over data, and try to surprise people rather than foreshadowing Snap's movements or publicly beta testing products, sources close to Snap have told me in the past.

But a source close to Snap Inc. tells me Spiegel's anti-Facebook orthodoxy kept him from embracing a News Feed-style algorithmically relevance-sorted feed, even as Instagram and Twitter saw engagement improve after adopting this curational method.

It was a covetable Instagram shot for those close enough to snap it.