Sentence examples for flat snaps from inspiring English sources

Over the deafening roar of their last remaining rounds of ammunition, the incoming fire has become short, flat snaps.

That is, the idea of a flat snap trap has been culturally transmitted.

For example, Drummond (2005) features over 60 variants of British flat snap mouse traps.

Some ancient bird traps were strikingly similar to flat snap mouse traps (Fig. 2a, b).

Gamos Richardson (1874) of San Jose, CA, patented a flat snap trap, whose striker presses the victim against a loop, thus choking it.

Current flat snap traps have separate spring and striker because their production and assembly is easier that way.

The first part showed: (1) The patented and seminal precursor of current flat snap mouse traps had one part less.

Eventually, Hooker (1894) patented the seminal flat snap trap, which had a spring/striker unit but only one end coiled and the other running through the coil.

Henry Anderson (1890) of Whitesborough, TX, patented an intermediate between L-shaped and flat snap trap with spring/striker unit (Fig. 5f).

The common ancestor of all current flat snap traps had one part less, and the great variety of these traps today is due to its success.

This ignorance allowed Michael Behe (1996) to claim the ubiquitous flat snap trap as an example for a system that ostensibly cannot have evolved.