Grasp
Snaps
Both words in one sentence
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Grabbing a chainsaw, she tries to attack him with it but he just nonchalantly grabs the blade, wrenches it from her grasp and snaps her neck.
Source: Chainsaw Good - Main protagonist Claire Winslow's mother, Anita Parker (Bonnie Bartlett), who is within the grasp of being rescued from a disabled elevator car when another aftershock snaps the cables.
- This trope is easiest to grasp in the context of a series, where an episode starts with a radically different version of reality that sooner or later snaps back into the version established in earlier episodes.
Source: Rubber-Band History
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