snare
Example Sentences
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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
Beowulf shinnied up the tree in which the snare was set and quickly cut the admiral down by gnawing through the rope with his teeth.
From Literature
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