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How to use snatched in a sentence

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Adam snatched up the bottle and glanced quickly towards Grace who was busy serving drinks herself.
To take one's leave gracefully and voluntarily seemed to him a more dignified end than to be snatched by death unwillingly away.
With a squeal of excitement, she dove into her calfskin tote and snatched out her cell, her face lighting up happily.
Sheep templates were snatched up and youngsters have been far from sheepish in letting their imaginations run riot.
Horse thieves snatched two Shetland ponies from a field in Kingswood, leaving their owner and her six-year-old grandson distraught.
Without further ado, the man reached down and snatched the letter from her trouser pocket.
He quickly snatched the last few flaky crumbs of an apple turnover as the plate was whisked away.
With instinctual ease, he snatched up his blowgun, loaded it with a dart and shot forth one of the poison-tipped projectiles.
When Kelly left the ring he put aside his celebrations to demand a re-match against Keith Knox, the man who snatched his unbeaten record.
An angry York mother has called for the return of her son's beloved BMX, which was snatched by two teenage muggers.
A plucky mother-of-four tackled muggers who had snatched a handbag off a pensioner.
A mugger who snatched a woman's handbag as she made her way to work has been jailed just ten days after he committed the offence.
Joey Poiriez showed local dominance while Powell pro Rodney Jones snatched first with a switch flip boardslide.
She quickly snatched up her son and took him down to the bombproof shelter, then volunteered her services to help the wounded men.
It should have proved a warning shot to the City defence but it obviously went unheeded as within minutes Kidderminster had snatched the lead.
This territory was retained, in greater part, up until 1797, when the Napoleonic Guards snatched away much land.
Such brief moments of happiness snatched from unpromising circumstances are generally the most that Loach's characters can hope for.
Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display.
He had tried to help her but she had snatched her clothes quickly from his grasp and glared daggers at him at the same time.
Disappointingly for him she snatched the pencil quickly before it could fall.
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It wasn't deep, but it had cost him blood and pain and the few minutes of catnapping he might have snatched.
He snatched a fire extinguisher off the wall of the office and squirted its contents full in the bear's face.
I snatched off my floppy hat and tried hurriedly in the dark to ram it on my other self.
Whan the poller sawe the preste was tourned, he snatched vp the purs, and toke his legges and to go.
As Frenchy was about to reply his sombrero was snatched from his head and disappeared.
Chippendale snatched his fretwork in his brackets and the angles of his chairs from the Chinese worker in ebony.
If they fricasseed an omelet he snatched bits of it, which Monsieur and he went off into a corner to eat.
As soon as the room was empty, he hastened to his desk, snatched pencil and notepad.
Branches and twigs grew alive and snatched at her and baulked her as she passed.
The Baroness snatched a fan which girdled her, and tapped him with it reprovingly.
Casting a suspicious, lightning glance at Janet, she snatched up the vanity case and covered the coin with her foot.
She indicated the neckcloths, and the sheath knife and the other things, and snatched them away too.
Boy tapped silvertail with such an increase of emphasis that the old mare snatched resentfully at her bit.
But hereat Torcall Dall gave a sore cry and snatched his hand away, and fled sidelong into an alley of the wood.
He snatched the lanthorn Joe carried, held it down, and stepped off the skep.
Dennis snatched up a belaying pin and brought it with all his force against the door, but made no impression on its stout timbers.
And it was true I could have snatched the meat from her like a wolf, but because of my vow I would not.
Tiennette snatched from the hands of Rose and Jeanne the stockings they were coveting.
And with a sudden movement, as the Huberts closed it to give it back to her, she snatched it from them.
His eyes fell on a large wrench lying on a worktable, and he snatched it up and threw it with all his strength.
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