snag

He was 19, and managed to snag a summer internship with New Line Cinema.

The wire is long gone, but a rusted snag remains entombed in the bark.

This is a snag because Chan lives across the border, where the Hong Kong Dollar is used.

Over the last four years, however, the process has hit a snag.

Luz gets away and hires Malone to take her over the border, where Thacker and others are waiting to snag her.

We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.

Imbedded in this bar was a long white snag, a tree trunk whose naked arms, thrusting far down stream, had literally impaled us.

After that I waded back to the snag carefully, and once more ordered the young woman to come to me.

At length I crept to the snag and beat against it with my cane.

Down the road arose sharp words of command, and the burning top of a tall pine snag threw its light upon bayonets in the highway.