Sentence examples for having snapped off from inspiring English sources

Having snapped off the root of the new plant, ministers now dumped manure on it.

Then came a sharp crack from the bush — a branch had snapped off.

The entire glass storefront of American Legion Post 65 had blown out, but only one of several dozen paper flags hanging from the walls inside had snapped off.

The sound of his viola cracking — the headstock had snapped off — echoed through the small theater.

There was a stone statue of a naked angel, but someone had snapped off its penis.

Once the mineral substrate has formed, divers use plastic cable-ties to attach bits of dying coral that have snapped off nearby reefs.

The bit has snapped off at least once and become repeatedly fouled in a shallow formation called cap rock, and the drillers have twice been forced to pull it out and essentially start the hole over again.

All across the country, what had happened whipped about by itself as if a live electric wire had snapped off a pylon in a storm and was whipping about in the air above the trees, the roofs, the traffic.

But this year, an underdog team has snapped off their golden balls.

"It looked like it could have snapped off at any point.

"That bolt could have snapped off and hit someone in the head and killed them," he said.