Sentence examples for with the snatch from inspiring English sources

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On this morning, Stephen Feil, a 59-year-old landscaper from Long Island, was having trouble with the snatch, which requires the athlete to lift the barbell overhead from the floor in one smooth motion.

I spent many a Saturday in the early 70s at the tunnel, throwing stones and bottles at the RUC and British Army patrols that regularly skirted the housing estates, playing cat-and-mouse with the snatch squads who hit the ground running from the backs of Saracens and Land Rovers.

Amyas Godfrey, from the Royal United Services Institute, said: "The problem with the Snatch Land Rover is that it was specifically designed for Northern Ireland and it has been adapted and reused for all sorts of different theatres that we never knew we were going to get involved in.

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With the snatched glimpses of drunken teenagers and worried mums sitting around watching CCTV, it starts to look like a visual mash-up of Ibiza Uncovered and some daytime show in which Dom Littlewood busts cowboy plumbers.

Perdue, 36, lifted a personal best of 210kg total in the in the women's 69kg category, with 95kg in the snatch and 115kg in the clean and jerk.

It is a secret liaison whose every glance and touch has a silent static crackle of tension: not sexual tension precisely, but the tension of two people who are consciously duplicating the form of their partners' adultery, with all the snatched restaurant meals and meetings in hotel rooms, but forgoing the sexual denouement and refusing to make the four-cornered puzzle snap into place.

Competitive weight lifters perform in two events with action-verb names: the snatch and the clean-and-jerk.

Georgia's Gheorghe Asanidze was better than Vasilev in the snatch, with 177.5 kilograms, but lifted just 207.5 kilograms in the clean and jerk.

Bartlomiej Bonk of Poland, leader after the snatch with a lift of 190kg, took the bronze medal.

The German slipped while trying to lift 196kg in the snatch, with the bar falling on to the back of his head and shoulder.

(For those who are unfamiliar with the phrase, "snatch a knot in their ass" means "to hit"). .

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