Sentence examples for snatched between from inspiring English sources
On Mir, time for any science at all has to be snatched between attempts to keep the 11-year-old rust bucket going.
In intervals snatched between washing dishes, cleaning floors, making tea, she set down her story, one slow, compelling paragraph at a time.
"Our hopes are high," said her husband, Jose Luis Avila, in a phone interview from Seattle snatched between his work shifts.
Again Nero made his peculiar way up the fence, only this time when he reached the wire he snatched it between his teeth before he fell.
It relies on the donated labour of friends, borrowed cars, moments snatched from between work commitments, and cheese toasties devoured in front of open laptops.
The masterpieces may be few and far between, snatched up by others.
"What I'd like to see is a little less hysteria in the US and the UK," said Andrew Gleadle, programme director for the International Medical Corps (IMC), which recruits health personnel for global humanitarian disasters, as he snatched a breather between shifts in Sierra Leone.
In between snatched phone calls, we hope they're all OK.
He was snatching time between masses at three large churches.
I have taken early retirement as the stresses and strains of working in an increasingly difficult university post grew to a point where I was sleeping on a foldout mattress under my desk for snatched moments of rest between lectures and meetings.
Last week British troops snatched two Bosnian Serbs, who between them had run a network of prison camps in which Muslims and Croats were tortured and murdered.
