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Example sentences for: snatches

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If a plank creaks in the floor, he [Ernesto IV] snatches up his pistols and imagines that there is a liberal hiding under his bed.
While their manifestations undoubtedly appear in the snatches of telephone and flatmate conversations recorded in the numerous corpora cited in the Appendix to the Grammar , their exposure is virtually asymptotic to zero.
In the first sequence, Cheung re-creates her character's nocturnal prowl in her own hotel, the camera coiling around her like a boa and hovering breathlessly over her shoulder as she snatches a necklace from another guest's room, then regards it on the rooftop in a cool neon-lit drizzle.
Seagal snatches the foot out of the air, twists Van Damme's leg 180 degrees, and tears half-a-dozen knee ligaments from the bone.
To see snatches of China’s traditional performing arts in a setting appropriate for an imperial banquet, try one of Beijing’s special teahouses.