And thus, finally, the technological trap snapped shut on us.

The trap had snapped shut.

The Cardassians had swallowed the bait, and now the trap snapped shut.

The mechanism by which the trap snaps shut involves a complex interaction between elasticity, turgor and growth.

Suddenly a section of Astroturf leaped up as a trap snapped shut, narrowly missing the wolf's hind leg.

As he pulled the rat up the stick gave way and the trap snapped shut.

Else crept forward, wondering when the trap would snap.

His heel caught and was held as if a trap had snapped on it.

The law's trap would snap, to snare Creep Hoyran.

"The trap has snapped," the Italian daily La Repubblica commented earlier this week on the almost even split of the country's electorate.