Sentence examples for snatches from inspiring English sources

She hands Ida a picture of her mother holding her as a baby, then snatches it away.

In the most shocking footage a woman in her early-20s is filming with her camera until a policeman snatches it and his colleagues wade in.

If you walk among them, you begin to hear – above the batter of waves on rock – a fragmentary soundscape of poems about love, snatches of Sappho, Sophocles and Shakespeare.

Blel Kadri is first over the top of Holme Moss, and Nicolas Edet snatches second from Voeckler.

So at times you are walking behind a lady and someone snatches her phone or bag and runs, when she turns, you are the first one she will point to.

But the amateur psychoanalysis and meaningful snatches of Kipling's "Law of the Jungle" were wearying.

Just when Charlie Brown is persuaded to attempt to kick the football, she snatches it away.

Eavesdrop on Sir Humphrey and Justice Shallow; buttonhole the producer of Off the Record and the political editors of the Grauniad or the Moon; get your hotline, in short, to what the cognoscenti are saying about this general election and you will hear snatches of a thousand conversations: "Looks like Tony's going to win then?" "Be close though".

This moody novel hypnotically weaves dreams, visions, premonitions and snatches of intense thinking as it jumps in and out of different minds.

Some new sorts of music revenues are emerging: sales of snatches of songs to use as mobile-phone ring-tones raised $71m last year for artists, according to Informa Media, a research group—small, but 58% up on 2001.For a true star, the extra pot is far bigger: record companies get only 15% of all revenues generated by such an artist, although they have made the star's name and marketed his brand.

The snatches became more frequent, and therefore more prone to error.