snapshot
Example Sentences
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In the long poem “A Few Days,” he calls to mind a scene like a snapshot: “purple loosestrife / bloomed in swathes / that turned the railway ditch and fields into a / sunset-reflecting lake.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Bennett has some snapshot memories of the president.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Any stock screen is only a snapshot, meant to help you with your own research through which you can form your own opinion about a potential investment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
Still, the snapshot of the girl on the bike followed me, a haunting thing of beauty I knew would break around the next bend, sure as a glass slipping from my hand.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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Additional Literary Terms, Unit 2
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