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  • Flat, plain, snapped-off bars sticking up out of the sidewalk, or bowing, flowered scrolls that look like they should have broken years ago.

    The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

  • Flat, plain, snapped-off bars sticking up out of the sidewalk, or bowing, flowered scrolls that look like they should have broken years ago.

    The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

  • You kill a buck with some busted tines or a snapped-off main beam.

    Enhancement or Au Naturel? 2009

  • Once they had gained that, they would be safe from an unlucky glance over a shoulder, a snapped-off shot, which was the most acute danger they faced at the moment.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • The oncoming dirt-bike roar of a Ranger RZR utility vehicle spitting up twin funnels of sand and snapped-off brush finished the job.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • There was instead the pommel, the grip that fitted into the palm of the hand: and instead of the circular foot, only the neck into which the snapped-off blade had been fastened.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • Once they had gained that, they would be safe from an unlucky glance over a shoulder, a snapped-off shot, which was the most acute danger they faced at the moment.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Everywhere people were pouring out of houses, carrying crosses and pieces of wood—broken bits of chair, snapped-off pieces of banisters and table legs.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • Before her rose a jagged hillside, gravestones protruding from the dirt like snapped-off bones.

    City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009

  • No matter that a deadly sharp can be fashioned from virtually anything found on a plane, be it a broken wine bottle or a snapped-off length of plastic, we are content wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and untold hours of labor in a delusional attempt to thwart an attack that has already happened, asked to queue for absurd lengths of time, subject to embarrassing pat-downs and loss of our belongings.

    - Boing Boing 2007

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