Sentence examples for child snatch from inspiring English sources

"I went in one day and saw another child snatch a toy away from him," May said.

It's surprising former 60 Minutes presenter Ray Martin wasn't included on the panel, what with his experience as a get-away driver for an earlier Channel Nine child snatch in Spain.

If the Beirut child snatch story had come off we could expect to see an episode of 60 Minutes with all its distinctive elements: sonorous voiceover, nerve-tingling music, tear-stained interview, dramatic street scenes and cloying journalistic satisfaction that a wrong had been righted and justice done.

During the night he kicked and snored, grabbing greedily at me with his well-moisturized hands like a child snatching at free candy.

Judi Dench's Philomena has spent a lifetime nursing her grief for the child snatched from her by a wimpled witch.

The same reason a child snatches a cookie from the cookie jar.

In the heat of the moment, a child snatches Tommy's toy and before he can even think about it, his fist has made forceful contact with the side of the offending child's head.

There was this child-snatching hysteria and a convergence of fears that drove Staten Islanders into a frenzy".

Child-snatching is now such a common phenomenon that it has added another element to custody cases.

Perhaps we should think about that next time we start lazily griping about A-list child-snatching.

We occasionally hear stories, often from friends of friends, of children snatched or almost snatched in shopping centres, or outside schools.