The phrase "as a snatch" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may lead to confusion without additional context.
Example: "He grabbed the ball as a snatch, but it slipped from his hands."
Alternatives: "in a flash" or "in a quick motion".
Marshalling actors and designers, he relives such banal non-events as a snatch of small talk in a hallway.
He enjoys this pastoral interlude, written in a more relaxed and fluid vein, as "a snatch of the alternative".
Think of each gene as a snatch of encrypted software -- a set of instructions that tells cells which proteins to produce in order to make, repair or regulate some part of the human body.
These men were lots of things - unhappy, embarrassed, unwell, unattractive - but by and large they were as far from the sex symbols we gaze at on the big screen as a snatched paparazzi shot is from a Vanity Fair cover.
But here we laugh at the situation rather than Innogen and it's as if a snatch of one of Beethoven's Late Quartets has invaded the incident when she reflects on the bleak fact that the corpse is no figment or fantasy: "The dream's here still.
A crane block, as opposed to a snatch block, is required to perform long lifts under continuous service conditions.
A lot of them just aren't good, the ones who are can often be total bitches, and above all else, relying on having a snatch as a novelty is shameful.
Mr. Biederman began collecting the souvenirs as a boy, snatching up items at Hollywood auctions, often for pennies.
And those traits have never been more effectively put to use than in "Bloody Bloody," which traces Jackson's road from a backwoods boyhood to his fraught tenures as a land-snatching, Indian-slaughtering general and president.
We wrote it off as a blip, snatched a win at Bristol Rovers after going another couple of goals down, marched triumphantly off to Gillingham last Tuesday and lost 3-1.
So said Charlize Theron at the Wondercon convention earlier this year on her recent run of roles, first as a boyfriend-snatching hot mess in last year's Young Adult, and now the evil stepmom in Snow White and the Huntsman.
