Sentence examples for for a snatch from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the Wanderers were here for a snatch and grab, and some 10,000 of their fans invaded Brisbane to cheer them on.

It is also home to numerous benches that attract teenagers who, done with school for the day but not yet ready to go home to other boroughs, linger in small groups for a snack, a snatch of gossip and a game or two of pickup basketball.

The senior capuchins are not deceived for long, so it's a snatch and grab operation for the deceiver.

He twice saw the singer perform in the 1970s and especially liked his song "Cycles," even singing a snatch for this writer.

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.

Two double faults gifted Safarova another break for 6-5 before a snatched volley into the net helped the Czech hold to love and clinch the first set.

Perkinson tells of a black man sentenced to two years for stealing a pair of shoes and another sent away for five for snatching a bushel of corn.

During the early 1940s, he told Walter de la Mare, "the muse deserted [me], except for a few snatches of contrived writing".

Sarah Cullen embodied this in the way she stood on pavements for hours waiting for the chance to ask a snatched question, put her foot in doors and spent time with those on the receiving end of government action.

Morley's club team-mate Brett Finch kicked a drop goal for New South Wales to snatch a 17-16 win over Queensland in the first State of Origin match in Sydney yesterday.

When Eilis is about to leave for America, a stray snatch of dialogue with an unnamed neighbour catches all that her mother does not say to her.