Sentence examples for snatch a car from inspiring English sources

Yet, they still fear for their properties and are barred they fear at gunpoint from returning to assess the damage and snatch a car full of clothes, papers and that will get them through the next six months.

Boeing has 216 workers for every aircraft (550 jets made by 119,000 people), compared with 143 (230 by 33,000) for Airbus a 51% productivity difference, just the sort of gap that enabled Japanese car makers to snatch a quarter of the American car market from Detroit's Big Three.

Thus did Honda move up from motorcycles to snatch a piece of Detroit's car business, and PCs evolved from toys into mainframe killers.

Springsteen's "The Last to Die", for instance, acquires a more implacable, driving momentum to match the glimpses of apocalyptic flight snatched from a car window, and "Inside a Dream" takes a William Blake couplet as its theme, but to less elevated ends, drolly describing dreams as a world that "looks familiar, feels obscene".

A car nearly clipped Roach's girlfriend as the driver goosed the gas to snatch a parking spot, and Freddie saw red.

Bishops sail to snatch a knight.

The colloquial "snatch a bite" is a neat touch.

I thought he might have wanted to snatch a purse.

Scotland had one chance to snatch a desperately-needed win.

Marlon Harewood had chances to snatch an equaliser for Barnsley.

One of these appears to involve a sort-of flame-fuelled turbo button, if snatches of a car chase along the famous Ponte Sisto bridge in Rome are anything to go by.