Sentence examples for manage to snatch from inspiring English sources

When setting off to feed on other flying insects, dragonflies manage to snatch their targets in midair more than 95 percent of the time, often wolfishly consuming the fresh meat on the spur without bothering to alight.

But I'm lucky if I manage to snatch a hurried conversation with my TAs once a week – and I only manage that because I try hard to make time for these crucial dialogues.

Even should she manage to snatch the nomination away at this late date, she can expect to run up against that same indictment from Mr. McCain in the fall, along with ads repeating her statements about Bosnia and the non-existent snipers.

Paul Rees Castrogiovanni: They made it look like I went for the money Castrogiovanni and sport's great rants Leicester 25-21 Toulon As we watched Sale hammer away at Saracens until the dying seconds, their European campaign all but over even if they did manage to snatch the win, discussion inevitably turned to the contrast with Montpellier, who capitulated at home to Bath the night before.

If we do manage to snatch the time, odds are we may want that warm drink to be something a bit stiffer than hot cocoa.

Nobody ever managed to snatch the prize.

After all, Chevron, an American oil firm, managed to snatch UNOCAL from CNOOC's jaws.

As one Ukrainian paper put it the government managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (again).

The Gaels may have won, 60-57, but Lawless had managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The attack came one day after some inmates at the prison managed to snatch rifles from guards and escaped.

Anna still manages to snatch those occasional moments of solitary communing with nature that make her an inspirational wilderness guide.