Sentence examples for firmly snapped from inspiring English sources

The riot boys, with the dark visors on their helmets firmly snapped down, were in place when the boxers entered the ring in front of 12,500 fanatics.

Firmly snapping the gun back closed loads the shotgun.

Twist the joint firmly and snap it off.

Once you see steam escaping from the vent, place the metallic valve (also called weight) on top of the vent in a way that it snaps firmly in place.

Wietecha consistently snapped the ball firmly and accurately without having to look back to Conerly, the holder.

With each cry of "caribou at 11 o'clock," or "red fox at 1," we wedged cameras firmly to the bridges of our noses and snapped ferociously away.

This track also looks set to catapult Wiley firmly into the mainstream; it's already been snapped up by Atlantic Records subsidiary Asylum.

HE IS firmly in command, but Mahathir Mohamad is still being snapped at from all sides.

Djokovic looked in real trouble when he required a treatment for a back problem at the changeover, but he came out firing and snapped up three straight games to put himself firmly on course for victory.

A ghost story should snap shut firmly, a door shut by an unseen hand: the otherworldly needs that artificial closure, or everything gets swallowed up in fear.

A review of the second book in the series, "Mary Poppins Comes Back," which appeared in this magazine in 1935, observed of the main character: "To our taste, she and her little charges are at their best when they are fixed firmly on the ground, snapping tartly at each other in the very human and cluttery nursery of the Banks family".