Sentence examples for snatch of this from inspiring English sources

All right, there are the two arias composed by Bernard Herrmann to expose the tender voice of Charles Foster Kane's favorite artiste, Susan Alexander; there's that terrific, death-dark party scene where the dancing girls come on to tell Kane, "There Is a Man!"; and don't forget the little snatch of "This Can't Be Love" that goes with the dreadful picnic at his lavish Xanadu.

He played a snatch of that song, then stopped abruptly.

He enjoys this pastoral interlude, written in a more relaxed and fluid vein, as "a snatch of the alternative".

This snatch of conversation reveals something about portraits and how we respond to them.

Rather than just being a flossy bit of myth-making, this snatch of reported speech does tally with my own vague memory of the discussion.

Setting the drama in this indeterminate snatch of revived witch-scare enables the dramatist to explore the seemingly abiding need in man to create scapegoats and to persecute people on the margins.

Query-by-humming (QBH) systems have been introduced to address this need, as they allow the user to simply hum snatches of the tune to find the right song.

An overheard snatch of conversation between my husband and four-year-old son this morning.

Quick video snatch of Boogie Wonderland.

What is your favourite snatch of dialogue?

Snatch of conversation between two amiable women on a 6th Ave.