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The most dramatic pounce on film may be the neck-stretching snatch by the Psorophora larva.
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Rather than a chain or tow strap, which don’t stretch and therefore create very high momentary loads, an elastic snatch or kinetic strap or rope will help reduce forces and actually make it easier to get the vehicle unstuck.
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“Both of y’all know, I’ve been collecting my little surgeons for that inevitable moment…that this grill right here is gonna get a little snatch, even though people think I have done it already, but I haven’t,” she told her mother and daughter.
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Then, intermittently, traffic controllers were able to pick up snatches of conversation from AA-11′s cockpit.
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Keep a starving man away from bread when he has only to stretch out his hand and snatch it.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER
You snatch me out of the cold cloister, but, in the bustling, ardent world you condemn me to the conventional chastity?
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMAS
Jack Harvey had sent young Tim into the cabin to snatch a wink of sleep, and Joe had come up, heavy and dull.
THE RIVAL CAMPERSRUEL PERLEY SMITH
Then, as the insect tumbled near her, she made a quick snatch at the glowing point of fire.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAM
They were the real enemies of my children; they sought to snatch the crown; I saw them daily at work and they wore me out.
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZAC
To attempt to snatch this prey from the Bey, excepting by a striking triumph at the Assembly, was not to be thought of.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SNATCH

  • appropriate
  • catch
  • catch hold of
  • clasp
  • clench
  • clinch
  • clutch
  • compass
  • embrace
  • enclose
  • enfold
  • fasten
  • grapple
  • grasp
  • grip
  • lay hands on
  • lay hold of
  • pinch
  • pluck
  • snag
  • snatch
  • squeeze
  • take hold of
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