Sentence examples for snag of the from inspiring English sources

In the tawdry bar on the lowest level of Tom Scutt's three-storey set, the tattooed Captain (Tom Randle) slurps lager, smarting at the snag of the hair-clippers that Wozzeck (Leigh Melrose) ineffectually wields.

This time, there is again a hybrid, which is expected to account for 40 per cent of UK sales, and it overcomes the chief snag of the last one by mounting the bulky battery under the rear seat, so boot space is now the same as the standard car's.

But I recognise this town with an almost painful snag of familiarity: the respectability, the proud municipality, the friendliness; all tinged with a sense of struggle.

A study by Armitage and Davidson (2014) has shown that the extra information from the CryoSat-2 (CSARInARIn mode increases the number of valid sea surface height estimates which are usually discarded in the SAR mode due to snagging of the radar signal.

The images snag on the edges of thought, stirring up fragments of half-remembered dreams.

Her eyes snag on the corners of things, the light glancing cruelly on polished surfaces.

A muscular 'gk' shuddered at the edge of the sound, the snag of choking.

The snag, of course, being that all the publicity would be down to me.

It helped that we arrived early enough to snag one of the tables right near the electric fireplace on the second floor.

She and her 13-year-old daughter had come for the Samsung Galaxy but hadn't managed to snag one of the Verizon phones, which disappeared minutes after opening.

Mr. Paul is campaigning, but polls suggest that Mr. Romney holds a commanding lead and could snag all of the state's delegates for himself.