Sentence examples for in a snatch from inspiring English sources

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

"I'll just keep on till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer.

But I can't take it seriously when, wanting to hark back to the source material, he throws in a snatch of verse.

Previewing his debut album, Electronic Earth, he illustrates his musical-magpie tendencies with opener, Sundown, a malevolent throb of electro noir that takes in a snatch of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi.

"For reasons best known to the bailiffs, they called the individuals away … they then called in police, who removed the obstructions, and then sent in a snatch squad," Vidler said.

In the show's best comic moment she instructs Iphigenia's bridesmaids about how to act properly, in a snatch of dialogue that sounds borrowed from a handbook from the modern wedding industry.

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

In a snatched conversation on the phone, he told us he feared he was being watched.

A few lines in a memoir, a snatch of recorded conversation, a letter fortuitously preserved, an event noted in a diary: all become luminous with significance — even though they are merely the bits that have floated to the surface.

He says something to her in Italian, a a snatch from some opera.

Elsewhere in Group A Bulgaria snatched a dramatic 4-3 win over Luxembourg in Sofia, where there were two goals in stoppage time.