snatch
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Synonyms & Antonyms for snatch
Synonyms: Verb
bag, capture, catch, collar, cop [slang], corral, get, glom, grab, grapple, hook, land, nab, nail, net, nobble [British slang], rap, seize, snag, snap (up), snare, trap
Synonyms: Noun
abduction, hijacking (also highjacking), kidnapping (also kidnaping), rape
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of snatch in a Sentence
Verb
An eagle swooped down and snatched one of the hens. She snatched the toy from his hands.Noun
to the police chief, it didn't look like a snatch, but another case of a bride-to-be getting cold feet
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The Russian has amassed fines of $19,000 this tournament, for -- among other things -- verbal abuse, snatching a towel from a ballperson and flipping the middle finger to the crowd in the third round against Feliciano Lopez. — Ravi Ubha, CNN, "US Open villain Daniil Medvedev keeps on winning, reaches semifinals," 3 Sep. 2019 Skip to main content Medvedev angrily snatched a towel out the hands of a ball person after receiving a code violation during a match against Spain’s Feliciano Lopez in the U.S. Open. — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, "Stan Wawrinka advances as injury fells defending US Open champ Novak Djokovic," 1 Sep. 2019 The balance shifted and the brash new government leader began snatching back power from the oligarchs to position his own people in the sphere of influence, eventually going after Khodorkovsky. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Citizen K': Film Review | Venice 2019," 31 Aug. 2019 Last week, Shiv told Tom about her new position as the Waystar heir apparent, thereby snatching his dream job away for herself. — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, "The Succession Game of Thrones Sees an Unlikely Contender Emerge," 26 Aug. 2019 An apartment that just got snatched off the market, according to the Corcoran Group. — Alexis Reliford, refinery29.com, "Taylor Swift's "Cornelia Street" Apartment Is Loaded With The Most Lux Features," 24 Aug. 2019 The man also took an American flag and library rug from the school and even snatched Oreo cookies and Hershey's Kisses from a teacher's desk, DeLozier said. — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, "Officials: Man snatches $27,000 worth of electronics from Louisville Catholic school," 23 Aug. 2019 The same suspects are believed to be responsible for another purse snatching at a Franklin Avenue Wells Fargo about 10 minutes later. — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, "Minneapolis police seek help in identifying robbery suspects caught on video," 21 Aug. 2019 The light rail chugs by 19 breweries (including Falling Knife), while the Korean short-rib pizza at Young Joni is one reason Ann Kim snatched the James Beard Award for best Midwest chef this year. — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, "16 Cities to Visit Before All of Your Friends Catch On," 20 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
While there hasn’t been a particular rash of private sales scams in the city lately, Bosques recalled a case the FBI cracked with the help of a Fremont detective who was investigating a snatch-and-grab robbery at a coffee shop in 2012. — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, "Fremont: ‘Exchange zone’ set up for Craigslist buyers, sellers," 8 June 2017 The text, sung by two sopranos, may well have been in Esperanto, as only snatches were decipherable. — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, "Dal Niente's 'Party 2017' pushes music off-focus," 4 June 2017 The beat is now peppy with drum and snatches of piano, a common Beatles rhythm. — Nicholas Dawidoff, The Atlantic, "How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’," 18 May 2017 Some were able to hear snatches of melody as subtle as the scraping together of grass-blades or the throbbing of the brittle tissue of insects. — Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, "A Strange Australian Masterpiece," 29 Mar. 2017 The accidental comedy of some of the conversations even led the program BBC Newsnight to dramatize snatches of dialogue, with the voices of both the American president and the British prime minister played by the impressionist Rory Bremner. — Robert Mackey, New York Times, "Excerpts From Imagined Clinton-Blair Chats, Intended as Satire, Cause Confusion," 8 Jan. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'snatch.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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