The trouble was, when they had ranked the remaining four in order of suitability, they came to another, unexpected snag.

She had hoped to have even more time to spare after the full-power tests of the reactors were completed, but an unexpected snag had developed.

I was thinking of unexpected snags.

Barring some unexpected snag, the Reds are expected to trade Eric Davis before the winter meetings, which are in two weeks.

This was a hazard that no one could have anticipated; it was typical of the way in which underwater operations developed unexpected snags and complications.

Unless, of course, there were any unexpected snags; the only possible danger seemed to be the one that Captain Jacobsen had mentioned.

But here on Darkover, the spaceport engineer had hit an unexpected snag.

This was a completely unexpected snag, for the only written characters they had ever seen were television program announcements, and they had never fully deciphered those.

How do we know it won't develop some unexpected snag and leave our people trapped down there in Corviki envelopes?

San Francisco's introduction in November of a new municipal election system known as instant runoff voting has hit an unexpected snag with the city's Ethics Commission.