in snatches

Example Sentences

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In early 2023, she said, students started stampeding into her library before school, during lunch and in snatches between classes to play chess at a handful of tables.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023

Freddy’s memories from those long months come in snatches — moments where he regained consciousness, hooked up to machines to breathe for him, clinging to life.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2022

My memories of the hours that followed come in snatches.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020

But this being a Spielberg movie, the humanity shines through in snatches of gallows humour and fragments of selfless individual heroism.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2016

He didn’t seem to know that a wolf should only ever sleep in snatches, and must get up often, stretching and turning, so that he’s ready for anything.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver