Example sentences for: snatching

How can you use “snatching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He worried that the hard evidence against Bin Ladin was still skimpy and that there was a danger of snatching him and bringing him to the United States only to see him acquitted.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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