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Discover Ludwig"snatch a meal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to quickly and hurriedly grab or obtain a meal. It can be used in a variety of situations, such as when someone is in a rush or on the go and needs to quickly get something to eat, or when someone is very hungry and needs to eat immediately. Example: "I only have a few minutes before my next meeting, so I need to snatch a meal from the cafeteria." Another example could be in a story about a character who is always on the move and doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and eat properly. The narrator might write, "He barely had time to snatch a meal from a food cart before rushing off to his next appointment."
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It threw it into the air but grabbed it again the moment it hit the water, much too quickly for hovering gulls to snatch a meal.
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We'd snatched a meal from the eagle's talons and handed it on a plate to this dreadful dog.
Now losing all control of her temper, she snatched a green meal ticket out of her pocket and waved it at me. "They gave me a ticket a day ago, but they never have enough rice.
Every in-flight meal became an opportunity to snatch a Pan Am swizzle stick or a plastic cup; every visit to the lavatory was another opportunity to pilfer a bar of soap emblazoned with the Pan Am logo.
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.
Often eating the egg she snatches, "she gets a meal on the job," quips Davies.
The bird snatched a succulent red berry.
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