I could hear snapping branches and whipping bushes, but I didn't look back again.

Behind them they heard pounding hooves and running feet followed by the sound of snapping branches.

The weight of the snow can snap branches or bend them out of shape.

He snorted, spat to one side, and stamped away, snapping branches.

The white vehicle with the two dead police officers rolled and bumped until he heard the crash of snapping branches.

The sound of snapping branches and undergrowth being trampled grew nearer.

He stopped to listen, and that was when he heard snapping branches and other voices behind him.

'Come on,' Henry said, when the sound of snapping branches and rustling leaves had faded almost to inaudibility.

He snapped long branches from a dried-up tree standing close to the raft and handed one to his burly companion.

Riders burst across the road in a crash of snapping branches and snorting horses.