SNAG in a Sentence

Learn SNAG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
10 example sentences for SNAG, such as:
1. Check all surfaces for snags and rough edges.
2. Now I couldn't see the ripple or the snag either.
3. I reckoned Jim had fetched up on a snag, maybe, and it was all up with him.
4. A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.
5. Then I had to look at the river mighty quick, because there was a snag in the fairway.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SNAG
snag
 n.  an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
 v.  hew jaggedly
Classic Sentence:
1  We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
2  I reckoned Jim had fetched up on a snag, maybe, and it was all up with him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
3  Then I had to look at the river mighty quick, because there was a snag in the fairway.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Now I couldn't see the ripple or the snag either.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  We didn't have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
6  Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.
2  The drug is very effective - the only snag is that it cannot be produced in large quantities.
3  Check all surfaces for snags and rough edges.