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How to use snatching in a sentence

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She flopped back into the pillows, with Isobel snatching up the teacup just before it sloshed onto the bedding.
Their targets are the estimated 40 to 50 criminals who specialise in pickpocketing, handbag snatching and breaking into cars.
The fencing is 5 feet high and has occasional cross fencing to keep hawks from swooping in and snatching up one of the chickens.
After snatching American citizen Zenaida Parker's handbag in Burger King, he used her bank card to buy drinks, cinema tickets and other items.
Lori pouted, snatching the fork and dropping it into the sink, on top of a pile of dirty dishes.
By then he was serving another prison term for snatching a bag from another woman.
The concierge's eyes searched the crowd for any witnesses before snatching the gold up and discreetly pocketing it.
This was a bride snatching, so that one man could marry and deflower a girl on her wedding day mainly to anger a rival.
Both males summoned him over to their car to offer him directions before snatching his phone.
She ducked the wild blow easily, and Jon stepped in, snatching the boy's stick from him and tossing it into the woods.
Avenue continued to press forward but were snatching at long-range efforts, most of which drifted wide of the target.
Both sides served a game of the highest standard with Portlaoise snatching victory in the dying minutes.
Make sure multiplier drag washers have been fully cleaned and give line freely without snatching.
The occupant was in another room when the thief struck, snatching the bag from a table in the living room.
Thieves have been snatching luxury cars in Bedford to order, police are warning.
For some time now dog snatching has been prevalent in our area and all dogs should be within sight at all times.
She shot back and leaned forward quickly, snatching the food from his hand.
The fruits that Ezzine wanted were on the other side of the table, and people were quickly snatching them up.
Isabelle reacted quickly, snatching his extended hand, pulling the boy back on solid land.
Nevertheless, Clare twice lost chances of snatching a draw after a David Forde point in the 66th minute left a single score between the sides.
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Other women might compulsively finish concealing themselves before snatching up the gun.
At last then she was snatching from her rival the lover of whom she had so long been jealous!
The monkey jumped down, and, snatching a banana skin, absorbed itself in picking it to shreds industriously.
The bars were worn so that noncoms wouldn't be snatching for other duties, messengers idling between missions.
He leapt for joy at her words, and snatching at his sword, which had been left to him, buckled it on.
Suddenly she sprang to her feet and, snatching a cloak from a rack by the front door, ran out of the house.
I opened the door of his cage and, snatching the puppy, fled.
She had the air of snatching at that as something concrete, graspable.
I snatched a cutlass from the pile, and someone, at the same time snatching another, gave me a cut across the knuckles which I hardly felt.
Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
They are accused of snatching a moneybag from a petrol pump attendant and injuring him with a knife.
More in the abstract, they were snatching at a snapdragon bowl.
Stover came to a balky stop, hastily snatching away his derby.
But Mr. Drayton stopped the dilution by snatching up his tumbler.
The English clergyman was poor and he had five children nearly all the same age and they wore shabby clothes and were always quarreling and snatching toys from each other.
None were more capable than he of coping with the occasion as it rose, of rising himself with the emergency of the moment, of snatching a victory from the very dust of defeat.
All of them were hard at work, snatching slings of cargo, high up, to the end of long derricks, only, as it seemed, to let them rip down recklessly by the run.
She was interrupted by an old laborer, who hobbled up as fast as his rheumatism would allow him, and began to speak without further ceremony than snatching off his cap.
Karl Gaskin fled from HMP North Sea Camp, near Boston, Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day before snatching his son, Karl-Tyler, from a house in south Lincolnshire.
Cheyne, and the other holding down the snatching, catching, ringed hands.
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