Sentence examples for snatching at from inspiring English sources
Parents swarmed toward the front, squinting and snatching at paper copies of the map.
She was dazed and desperate, snatching at prayer as you'd snatch at something for balance.
Dr. Nagaraj, snatching at the steering wheel, rounded a curve, slowing down.
Is she a sadly deluded victim or a fighter snatching at one last measure of happiness?
Theatre is doing the same, snatching at its neighbours, testing its barriers.
They cluster around her in a greedy, jostling pack, hands snatching at the cookies and the too-hot cups.
On the Saturday afternoon that they ended David's life, Harold Carter and Vicente Matias, two veteran detectives of the 26th Precinct, were searching for David after an alleged purse-snatching at his girlfriend's college when they entered a 20-bed supportive housing program run by The Bridge in New York's East Village.
The names snatched at my heart.
They snatch at music as we snatched at movies, filling our heads with plural images.
Chances were snatched at, opportunities wasted.
"The corpse was snatched at the end of the process.
