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Example sentences for: snatched

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In one, he recalled, a soldier snatched a whip away from him and asked whether he had ever been "disciplined."
Among life's sadder experiences must be meeting someone late in one's career only to have him suddenly snatched away.
I quickly snatched up a bunch of size 40s before any of the salespeople could get close to me, and headed toward the changing room.
None other than the emperor Napoleon III himself snatched up the glorious Souvenir de Mortefontaine for 3,000 francs and hid it away in the palace at Fountainebleau, where he could admire in private the great horizontal sweep of the central tree, and the standing woman's posture echoed in another, barer tree.
During the early 1980s, sensationalist journalism, combining true-crime stories with garbled statistics, convinced much of the public that America is a nation where vast numbers of children are snatched from their happy families by mysterious strangers every year.