Sentence examples for snatched a glance from inspiring English sources
The second time I saw Sands, it was with some embarrassment and much bewilderment that I snatched a glance at his rouged face inside the pine coffin at his home in Belfast's Twinbrook Estate.
And so I brooded all the following morn, Awed by the stern preceptor's face, mine eye Fixed with mock study on my swimming book: Save if the door half opened, and I snatched A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up, For still I hoped to see the stranger's face, Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved, My play-mate when we both were clothed alike!
He gave me the parting gift of that fabulous smile of his, the best smile in the world, and then I left, snatching a final glance at the back of that noble white head, alone and motionless at the big table, before I exited the front door.
The fleeing mouse snatches a glance over his shoulder, and when he looks forward again he sees the floor lamp coming closer and closer.
The bird snatched a succulent red berry.
He snatched a bowl from the table.
On the touchline Mourinho waved as his name was sung again, a little pointedly, with perhaps a snatched glance up to the boxes in the gods in the far stand.
But he will have glanced north to unfolding events in Edinburgh with shuddering fear – for Alex Salmond looked set to snatch a second tartan term in commanding style.
Bishops sail to snatch a knight.
The colloquial "snatch a bite" is a neat touch.
But its heavy traffic meant our views were more like snatched glances from behind a Winnebago.
