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

But Ackerman’s business is “show, don’t tell”; rather than declare these points, he reveals some in snatches of conversation.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2019

Competitors have to sleep in snatches of 20 minutes as they battle the Atlantic, then the iceberg-strewn Southern Ocean, round Cape Horn and struggle back through the Atlantic to the finish at Les Sables.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013

Music came in snatches as if the wind only carried what it chose to bring to them, brief moments of rhythm, a piece of song, a distant hint of melody.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers