A cord-but the cord had snapped, was gone from me.

And now, in the pause after his last sentence, he suddenly lurched as if some taut cord within him snapped.

"Now," someone called out, and a cord snapped taut across the corridor, just at ankle level.

He yanked the headset's cord and its plug snapped free.

I saw the point where the cord frayed and snapped around my mother's neck.

The cord snapped taut and the plug jerked from the socket.

The cord had snapped, so I tied the two ends together.

Only towards the evening, in the comparative relief of coolness, he began to wish that this cord would snap.

The cord of silence could never snap on the island.

The cord around her right wrist snapped with a sharp sound, like a metal spring failing.