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Example sentences for: snatching

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To celebrate his unification of Japan after more than a century of civil war, Hideyoshi had made the castle the country’s greatest fortress, so the Tokugawa felt obliged to destroy it in 1615 after snatching power away from Hideyoshi’s heir.
(When my wife went through this magic moment, I briefly considered snatching the baby and replacing it with an 8-by-10 glossy of myself.)
The WP business section runs a story about how, with fears about newborn switching and snatching on the rise, high-tech infant monitoring systems are being put in place in hospitals nationwide.
I don't buy that Sam, in his fourth year at the time of his snatching, would, less than a decade later, have no recollection of the parents and siblings with whom he'd spent the first three, and that only the aroma of a cedar chest would rekindle faint memories of his warm life among the Cappadoras.
Like other reviewers who have not had the leisure to become acquainted with the HDAS gradually, I am compelled to browse through, snatching at pieces here and there.