Sentence examples for snatching from from inspiring English sources

They went out and backed Howe to the hilt, winning by 5-3 and snatching from the Yankees whatever advantage the home field holds.

The Muslims of Granada lacked sufficient forces to constitute a genuine danger to the Christians, who limited themselves to collecting tribute and launching an attack against the Muslims from time to time, snatching from them some city or other.

But on paper at least, a Kerry-Edwards ticket would stand a chance of snatching from the Republicans a Carolina in the south, as well as, say, West Virginia and maybe even New Hampshire.

When I think of him in this vein, I remember him one day snatching from my mantelpiece a bookmark, on which was inscribed Logan Pearsall Smith's remark "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading".

I could not find any logic to these names – which, in speculative fiction, I think are particularly important – beyond the writer's randomly snatching from the air the first word she thought of to associate with certain skin-colours.

The dark-horse Republican candidate for California governor, businessman John Cox, also has been a strong backer of virtually every Trump policy — but not on baby snatching from immigrant moms.

The teenager wanted in a purse-snatching from a 78-year-old woman in a wheelchair in Brooklyn was arrested on Thursday, the police say.

Snatched from under their foreign eyes.

Live eels snatched from a bucket?

Who snatches from the fire the blazing brand.

Oksana's breath was snatched from her.