Christina Binkley

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

Kayla Tausche

Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I've definitely had my share. I got tongue-twisted on the word 'prevalent' once; had a homeless man accost me during a segment; and got my mic snagged off when a congressional staffer barged into my frame.

American Journalist

Karen Salmansohn

Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!

American Author

Douglas Coupland

There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.

Canadian Author

Ian Frazier

To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

American Writer

Adora Svitak

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

John Pinette

I snagged the biggest bandwagon in history. Just when the buffet stuff was running out, now I'm the 'Seinfeld' guy. Somebody up there likes me. That's why I never worry. Something always comes up.

Chris Cornell

When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.

American Musician

Jeanne Marie Laskas

People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.

Trace Lysette

Now that I'm out there and it's known that I'm trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.

American Actress

Use 'snag' when plans change due to sudden issues, not gradual problems.

Unexpected Problems

'Snag' often implies a problem that can be overcome with effort, not a complete failure.

Minor Setback

When 'snag' is a verb, it may suggest good fortune in obtaining something desirable.

Luck Involved

Using 'snag' as a verb indicates swift or decisive action to acquire something.

Quick Action

When 'snag' is an obstacle, it suggests a physical and tangible problem.

Physical Obstacle

Imagine a 'snag' as something poking out that can catch or hold onto items.

Visualize the Snag

Use 'snag' to describe accidental tears in fabric or other materials.

Accidental Tear

In ecology, 'snag' refers specifically to standing dead trees and not to other issues.

Ecology Specific

'Snag' in an ecological context plays a critical role in natural habitats.

Ecosystem Role

 it up with more and more salmon it sinks lower lower and filled with more water but have a brand-new motor coming so I'll have an extra motor I'm gonna go pick the wife up our really good fishing boat that we have over at our son's house he'll have real smooth sides and my wife will fish to her heart's delight without snagging anything while checking

Salmon Snag PIPE Life Below...

 I mean, I hate to say, yeah, it's a bit stereotype but it's the stuff of nightmares. It really is. It's like you know you couldn't make it up, could you? But it does, it exists. But it's a monster, it is a monster. This one is called the snag tooth sea devil. I like the names of them as well. Look at that. They're very characteristic, aren't they?

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 all the time when you're at the bird with a big relatively large wingspan you'd think the large Raptors and specially Bulger's are very very important too for that they're very big they're not they're the most agile of birds of ultra so they're quite clumsy so they want to go up insert the tree that's not gonna snag

Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...

 fishing lines pretty nasty itself because generally it's monofilament which means it's clear and it doesn't break down so you have this crystal-clear line down there animals generally can't see it they get snagged up in it it doesn't biodegrade so it's there forever and it's just a real nasty

Divers Clean Reefs to...

 snag a window seat, look out and imagine a rock so enormous that resting on the ground, it just grazes your wingtip. It's so wide that it takes your plane one full minute to fly past it. That's the size of the asteroid that hit the Earth. It has only been within my lifetime

Adventures of an...

 station she was a very beautiful news anchor who didn't know anything about wildlife and we would get this news anchor to interview people literally on some chairs paul would write the scripts and the news anchor would ask the questions they snagged a time slot on a

Kenya’s Wildlife...

 and stick with it throughout a piece of writing. One more wrinkle. Certain pronouns already have possession built in and don't need an apostrophe. Remembering that will help you avoid one of the trickiest snags in English its vs. it's.

When to use apostrophes...

 maximizing reflections isolating moving shapes helping tarpon homed in on prey in deep waters it's a huge scene and Stocking advantage allowing tarpon to snag fish other predators miss ambushing a meal with ease

"Dinosaur" Fish PIPE...

 who had a reputation for disemboweling stray adventurers, but a river god showed her how to collect the fleece the sheep had snagged on briars, and she succeeded. Finally, Psyche had to travel to the Underworld

The myth of Cupid and...

 in pursuing my passion for physics. Now, you know how I do my research. Let's get back to my favorite model and hopefully yours after this talk, because unfortunately, we have a bit of a major snag.

Snag

A problem or difficulty.

Often appears as...

Catch or obtain suddenly, unexpectedly, or by chance.

Often appears as...

A sharp, angular, or jagged projection.

Often appears as...

Tear or make a hole in something by catching it on a sharp or rough object.

Often appears as...

A dead tree that is still standing, typically in an aquatic environment.

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