Sentence examples for a snatching from inspiring English sources

The sense of loss that many of these subjects confront, the sense of resistance to unwelcome change that others display, makes "Faces Places" essentially elegiac, a snatching of vitality and consolation in a race against the ultimate loss and oblivion, death.

A snatch operation risks being horribly bloody.

"It was a snatched opportunity," he says.

But deprivation gives details a snatched richness.

He played a snatch of that song, then stopped abruptly.

A snatch of music came over the loudspeaker.

"M" gets you, say, a snatch of Renaissance melody to accompany a lute player by Titian.

If he remains at large, he risks being killed in a snatch operation.

Unhappy people cutting a rug in a snatched moment of joy is standard theatrical fare.

If you ride to the end of a line, a recording plays a snatch of Chopin.

It came to me over a snatched supper, late one night, at a bar.