Sentence examples similar to snatch a crumb from inspiring English sources
Giap, the Vietminh's military chief, called the VNQDD a "group of reactionaries plotting to rely on Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and their rifle barrels to snatch a few crumbs".
Bishops sail to snatch a knight.
The bird snatched a succulent red berry.
He snatched a bowl from the table.
The woman hits the roof – literally – banging the ceiling in protest at his offer, before snatching back her crumb of gold and darting outside.
Achieving these ambitious goals may require a parallel investment of functional studies using simpler organisms — for example, of the type that might be found scampering around the floor, snatching up crumbs in the chefs' kitchen.
Pretending to be a girl is easy, Henry says, because "a damsel out west on the trail could spit, chaw tobacco, holler, grunt, and fart, and gather no more attention to herself than a bird would snatching crumbs off the ground".
As he travels with Brown, he discovers it's easy to be a girl, because "a damsel out west on the trail could spit, chaw tobacco, holler, grunt, and fart, and gather no more attention to herself than a bird would snatching crumbs off the ground".
A crumb of helpless goodness for him.
They did not leave a crumb.
