snatched

Example Sentences

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He approached, climbed the cottonwood tree and snatched a single pale-blue egg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Laura McVay, who works in palliative care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said the big cat snatched her brown 5½-year-old, pint-sized shih tzu named Declan around 11:30 p.m. mere “feet away from the door.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

A huge yellow crane will bring it up to the summit, which will stand at 172.5 metres and has snatched the record as the world's tallest church from Germany's Ulm Minster.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

"I don't want another mum, another family, to feel the pain that mine's going through, for another child to have their future snatched away from them."

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Nearly six months had passed since he had been snatched from his village.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis