snare

Example Sentences

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Between these and the newspaper advertisement, the detectives were hoping to snare the sister in their trap.

From Literature

Marnus Labuschagne received a full delivery from Tongue angled into the stumps and edged to slip, before the same bowler snared Steve Smith with one which nipped to bowl him through the gate.

From BBC

It’s just this saxophone blaring through what sounds like a distorted snare head.

From Los Angeles Times

On Everybody's Trying To Figure Me Out, she even tuned her snare drum to match the "iconic" thwack of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

From BBC

The script never varies: He vows to snare the bad guys.

From Los Angeles Times