Sentence examples for snapped closed from inspiring English sources

The elevator snapped closed.

"Ritual over," Mr. Sugimoto said, after the shutter snapped closed.

This separation created a crevice, which then very quickly snapped closed again, resulting in the typical offset expected for a thrust quake.

The shears snapped closed, cutting a cord that suspended a leaky can of paint above a detonator.

The action was very smooth, and the shock-absorber pads meant there was less of a jolt when they snapped closed.

"And shortly before noon on Dome Day," he writes, now attaching a name to this calamity, "every one of them snapped closed".

When it comes to the business of dressing a royal, however, mouths snap closed like one of the Queen's Launer handbags.

In this charmed season, Safina's serve has seemed to abide in the charged summer air while her entire frame tenses and then snaps closed like a trap.

A woman (Tamar Shelef) places herself against a V-formation of gray walls — they look as though they could snap closed on her at any moment — and slides along one of them, gripping her gut, clawing the air, and gasping.

They snap closed, entrapping the single cell, before opening back up and letting it float away.

As soon as you touch one, they snap closed; that's how you know you've got a live one.