Sentence examples for a small snatch from inspiring English sources

After playing 189 minutes of a final in temperatures nudging 50C, at the conclusion of a punishing 13-day tournament, the player had earned at least a chance for a small snatch of time in which to catch his breath.

Beyond the drums, Taye and his collaborator DJ Manny handle a small snatch of piano and saxophone, tapping out an entirely new melody that bends and sways across three minutes.

But when, as it ends, she is told that she will indeed be employed in the field, she feels "a small snatch of emotion, a blend of fear and excitement from which it was impossible to recover either".

Well, the other day I thought to Google the one small snatch of lyric I could decipher from my murky bootleg: "We kissed, fell in love too fast…" And up the answer popped: "Could We," by Cat Power, off her 2006 CD, "The Greatest".

America, and perhaps existence itself is a cascade of empty promises and advertisements  —  that is to say, fantasy worlds, expectations that will never be realized "IRL," but perhaps consumed briefly in small snatches of commodified pleasure.

Eagles sometimes swoop down and snatch a small kid or knock an adult off balance enough to make it fall.

Officials in charge of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission announced that they will snatch a small boulder off an asteroid, as illustrated above, rather than bag up an entire asteroid.

Flush with campaign cash, Cassidy has snatched a small lead in the polls, but Landrieu isn't done yet.

Peter snatches a small piece of paper that the man dropped as he died, containing the joke.

Someone snatches a small but sturdy umbrella from inside their "Fallcraven" backpack and forces it, closed, into your mouth; and then they try to open it.

In November Vivendi snatched GVT, a small Brazilian fixed-line telecoms operator, away from Telefónica, Spain's former monopoly, which had offered to buy it.