(1) In the meantime, if the keenly priced Moto E performs similarly to the Moto G, being snappy and lasting a solid day on a single charge, it could sell very well, especially in the run-up to Christmas.
(2) Enjoy it, since 2009 will be the Year of the Compact Fluorescent Lamp, which isn't as snappy.
(3) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
(4) Quickened the pace in midfield with some snappy passing and clever movement.
(5) The Egyptians called it Shedet (it was the Greeks who, wise to the city’s USP, gave it its snappy name), and it was possibly the most ancient city in ancient Egypt.
(6) In a snappy suit, and with a new razor-sharp hairdo, Osborne looks ready for business.
(7) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(8) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
(9) Snappy Snaps prints ordered online and collected in-store appear to be more expensive in London than elsewhere.
(10) Based on the features of M1 and OS according to auscultation and phonocardiography, the patients were categorized as group I, 18 patients with loud and snappy M1 and OS; group II, 12 patients with snappy M1 but small and dull OS; and group III, seven patients with small and dull M1 and OS.
(11) Snappy Snaps can charge 75p for a single print, though the price will drop if you order more.
(12) Ridley Scott was definitely in charge - and he was quite snappy with some of the questioners.
(13) Yellen, who isn't giving terribly snappy answers, has generally been backing the Fed's approach under Bernanke.
(14) The first question of the first show last month, presented by George Lamb, set the tone: "Which singer crashed his car into Snappy Snaps while high on cannabis?"
(15) It is complex and requires a complex set of solutions, not the kind that make neat and snappy headlines.
(16) It all seemed part of a grand vision, one with some intellectual underpinning from the "red Tory" thinktank ResPublica and a snappy title – the Big Society.
(17) "I keep chapters short and snappy because I like that.
(18) The tone was snappy, with the former White House chief of staff trying to highlight what Emanuel says is García’s lack of experience, especially in managing the finances of the nation’s third most populous city.
(19) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
(20) 76 mins: England try to mount a snappy counter-attack, but once again it's brought to and end by Hummels, who intercepts a well-intentioned Johnson ball just before Walcott could collect.
Tetchy
Definition:
(a.) See Techy.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
(2) It didn't look as if that was quite how he remembered it, but May pressed on, becoming ever more tetchy.
(3) Simon Walters, the political editor of the Mail on Sunday and co-author of the 17 June story, will appear before Leveson on Monday afternoon, raising the prospect of tetchy exchanges with the judge.
(4) And yet Dame Eileen's tetchy objection that casting middle-aged men as girls is not authentic kept coming to me as I braved the heat and seats at the Wanamaker.
(5) They are better than that team out there today, that’s the problem.” But a tetchy Van Gaal was in no mood to tolerate the opinions of a successful former generation.
(6) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
(7) Hunt was emollient and calm, becoming tetchy only when challenged over the issue of GP contracts.
(8) The architect Zaha Hadid cut short a tetchy BBC radio interview to mark her being awarded the 2016 Riba Royal Gold Medal after mounting an angry defence of her Qatar World Cup stadium and Tokyo Olympic stadium projects.
(9) As the world's second- and third-biggest oil consumers, they are also rivals for energy, which has led to tetchy rows over a Siberian oil pipeline and gas fields in the South China Sea.
(10) But it became a rambling, often tetchy performance from Putin, repeatedly scolding journalists for failing to understand him, or for leaving their mobile phones on.
(11) Abbott is already trying to calm his friends on the right, tetchy at Turnbull’s profile and Abbott’s continuing low poll ratings.
(12) It's a fair enough decision I guess, but this hasn't been a tetchy game, I wonder whether there was a need to get the cards out there.
(13) But in one of a number of tetchy exchanges between the pair, Hodge declared herself “very sceptical about that”.
(14) In increasingly tetchy exchange, Myners says that the Co-op was paying a dividend worth £1bn in today's money.
(15) The media got into crisis mode, naturally, but we were never really tetchy: there was no hunt for Those Responsible, as one suspects there will be if things get really dry this time around.
(16) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
(17) New York Republican Lee Zeldin said: “There is another alternative other than war; it’s a better deal ... America got played like a five string quartet.” Like a Senate version last week , the lengthy hearing got increasingly tetchy, with both sides frequently interrupting each other, and Kerry – who entered on crutches after breaking his leg cycling – was forced to stand and stretch at times.
(18) Mantel added: “As for ex-politicians who have weighed in: the same tetchy commentators who made fools of themselves when my stories were first published have been persuaded to do it again.
(19) They - and Labour - should also worry about a feeling that can be picked up all over this constituency: that the tetchy disconnection from politics that went nuclear with the expenses crisis, was probably perpetuated by the very public fall of Chris Huhne, and shows no signs of going away, least of all round here.
(20) The chief executive, who has faced a campaign from some newspapers to step down following the publication of the report into serious failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust , endured a long, tetchy grilling two weeks ago from the Commons health committee.