Sentence examples for snaps under the from inspiring English sources

The modified plant, particularly when loaded with all that fruit, snaps under the force of even a modest wind.

But the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure.

In the excellent Promises Promises (still on tour), he gave us a teacher at the end of her career who snaps under the pressure of long-buried childhood repressions.

Before long, Leontes is taking action, separating Polixenes from his young son, Mamillius (here played by a grown actress, Morven Christie, doubling later as Perdita) and causing in his pregnant queen a hollowing-out that I have rarely seen more harrowing than as enacted by Ms. Hall: a human willow who snaps under the full weight of censure.

30/47 Charlie snaps under the pressure of keeping Duffy's secret.

"Office Space" character Joanna snaps under the pressure of adding pieces of flair to the suspenders of her restaurant uniform.

Physically and emotionally exhausted, van Gogh snapped under the strain.

Branches have simply snapped under the weight of snow.

Two of his most recent films show individuals snapping under the pressure of lay-offs.

When riots broke out two years ago, the thin blue line of our oppressor snapped under the strain.

It turns out that the roof pole of the cook tent had snapped under the weight of the snow.