Sentence examples for snatcher from inspiring English sources

The word "snatcher" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who takes something away quickly or without permission. For example: "The thief was a quick snatcher—he grabbed the jewels and ran away before anyone could stop him."

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snatcher

noun

One who snatches, or steals by snatching.

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Her stridency, from her early days as "Thatcher the milk snatcher" to her defenestration by her own party, was divisive.

Cradle snatcher!

He teamed with Karloff again in the eerie The Body Snatcher (1945), and he returned to the role of Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

It was the basis of the horror films The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Flesh and the Fiends (1959; called Mania in the United States).

The novel Juntacadáveres (1964; Body Snatcher) deals with Larsen's earlier career as a brothel keeper and his concomitant loss of innocence.

While a member of the Heath cabinet (Thatcher was only the second woman to hold a cabinet portfolio in a Conservative government), she eliminated a program that provided free milk to schoolchildren, provoking a storm of controversy and prompting opponents in the Labour Party to taunt her with cries of "Thatcher the milk snatcher".

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Yet we had to watch this eternally-spirited woman sit there and receive a lecture on the wonders of being married to a wig-snatcher from the wife of one of them while displaying all the inquiring mind of a hypnotised sloth at an Iranian anti-Israel rally.

Guidelines on milk are an important step for the Conservative party, whose reputation on school meals was marred when then-Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher scrapped free school milk for over-sevens in 197 - earning her the nickname "milk-snatcher".

She was a fall guy for the Treasury's expenditure cuts, for it was Anthony Barber, not Margaret Thatcher, who abolished free milk for school children; yet it was Margaret Thatcher who took the blame for it and was nicknamed Thatcher the Milk-Snatcher.

He claims to have stopped criminals before — a purse-snatcher, a postcard thief — and had taken matters into his own hands.

As for smartphones, they had turned people, body snatcher-like, into distracted drones.

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