snatched

Example Sentences

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Maduro, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for almost three months after American commandos snatched the pair from their compound in Caracas in early January.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

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

"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

He had landed on a shrub, growing from the rock; he caught hold of it with one hand, snatched at it with the other, and held there.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell