The word "snatched" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as an informal verb meaning to take something quickly, usually without permission. For example: "I snatched the last donut from the plate before she could get it."
Like him, the other detainees had been snatched by US soldiers from Iraq's towns and cities and flown to a place that had already become infamous: a foreboding desert fortress that would shape the legacy of the US presence in Iraq.
There are people in the Midlands who could never forgive him for the way United snatched the great Duncan Edwards from Wolves.
Quite what Bolt did or didn't say during a snatched conversation with a reporter may remain a matter of dispute, but if the Jamaican had thought the games "a bit shit" at one point, by the time he bowed out on Saturday night he was praising the "crazy energy" Glasgow had to offer, with the Scottish weather the only lingering disappointment.
My sister told me that the security forces had snatched Adel from his bed and accused him of being a militant.
Two double faults gifted Safarova another break for 6-5 before a snatched volley into the net helped the Czech hold to love and clinch the first set.
As a Lib Dem, I often found myself disagreeing with him – sometimes in person, catching a word with him as he snatched a fag outside a policy committee meeting – but I identified with him, as a human being in the Westminster quagmire, as so many people did.
Murray had a match point at 5-4 buthehe 2013 runner-up saved it and then snatched the set with a break of his own.
From the snatched conversations over coffee, he noted that the office was split roughly 50/50 between people who genuinely believed in what they were doing, and those who thought it was stupid but wanted the money.
This time of year always fills me with a desire to drop everything and disappear into nature, but the rules won't allow it; I must make do with these snatched moments.
Palacio's second goal of the match then looked to have sealed the win for Inter until Bellomo's late heroics snatched a deserved point for the Turin side.
A fine strike from substitute Peter MacDonald with ten minutes remaining separated the teams as Dundee snatched a 1-0 victory to leave St Mirren still searching for their first point of the season.
