Sentence examples for snatch some sleep from inspiring English sources

We needed to push on to Baku by Friday to get to embassies so we drove on through the night stopping to snatch some sleep every few hours.

He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors — thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were in the yard and on the driveway — and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep.

They'd spent the night taking photographs, walking round deserted streets and snatching some sleep on the Embankment, though Big Ben's interventions made that difficult.

He snatches some of his best and clearest thoughts around 4 a.m., after which, too wound up to sleep, he might go out and stroll around the neighborhood.

The plaintiffs snatched some measure of victory from that reasoning.

The police snatched some of them from cafés and metro stations.

Vikram Pandit, chief executive of Citigroup, has snatched some of Jamie Dimon's market momentum.

We were successful in snatching some of our freedom with our own hands.

Good thing I snatched some things before it was gone.

The famous "surge" snatched some hope from the jaws of defeat.

The dilemma for stressed-out students, with one or maybe two exams in the day, is whether to snatch a little sleep there or then, or wait for an opportunity for forty winks later in the day.