snatched

Example Sentences

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Some of the inn’s most expensive bottles—from the winemaker Domaine de la Romanée-Conti—had been snatched, replaced by bad replicas with screw-on caps.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

It could be contrived and improbable and old-fashioned in its triumphs snatched from the jaws of defeat, and I completely loved it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

More than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds awarded to scholars, writers, archivists, and researchers across the country was snatched up in three days.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

Yet again, Liverpool had snatched an injury-time winner against their local rivals.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Akira watched as the flames snatched first this group of trees, then that one, circling the round bald but leaving the interior of it untouched.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz