Sentence examples for snatch for from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'snatch for' is not a common construction in English and does not appear to be a standard phrase
If you are referring to snatching or grabbing something, you can use 'snatch up' or 'grab for.' For example, "He snatched up the ball before it hit the ground."
He twice saw the singer perform in the 1970s and especially liked his song "Cycles," even singing a snatch for this writer.
As Sarah Stillman noted in her outstanding article on forfeiture abuses, many police departments depend on forfeiture funds to fill budget gaps, which further increases the incentive to snatch (for some, this is a feature, not a bug).
In Felpham he composed the epic "Milton: A Poem", the preface of which contains "And did those feet in ancient times", lines that over a century later, Robert Bridges would snatch for a morale-boosting anthology, The Spirit of Man (1917), commissioning Hubert Parry to set it to appropriately rousing music.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's retirement gives Republicans another shot at a seat they've been trying to snatch for a long time.
The split-snatch, for instance, is "super old-school and lame," according to Mangold, who narrated as Robles demonstrated and looked a bit like a cheerleader hoisting leaden pompoms, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
McCovey slashed a line drive that second baseman Bobby Richardson snatched for the final out.
The baby was in high spirits, grinning her toothless baby grin and snatching for the wineglass my wife held just out of reach.
Whatever the outcome, the Roma say that it is they who now live in fear — of having their children snatched for no reason other than their cultural identity or skin color.
During civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, whole villages were sometimes seized by rebels; the UN reckons some 20,000 Sierra Leoneans were snatched for use as fighters or sex slaves, or simply as bargaining chips.
Keeping the grief that motivates the original hubristic doctor, he swaps dank labs and body-snatching for shiny science and stem-cell research while turning Victor into Victoria, with the luminous Helen McCrory in the title role.
I'd like to know what happened; how did this happen?" When the swap was first discovered, Cushworth and Casanellas, who are Christian missionaries working in Latin America, feared that their son had been snatched for sale to child traffickers.
