How to Use snatch in a Sentence

snatch

1 of 2 verb

• She snatched the toy from his hands.
• An eagle swooped down and snatched one of the hens.
• Who did Chevy snatch the record from?
  — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
• My friends are like, 'Who body-snatched you?
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• My friends are like, 'Who body-snatched you?
  — Meg Walters, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
• My friends are like, 'Who body-snatched you?
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• And my friends are like, ‘Who body snatched you?
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
• Before it all got snatched away.
  — Allen Iverson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
• One child kept trying to snatch the truck away.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
• Louis snatched his knife from his belt and went under.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• Don’t count your eggs until they’re snatched.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
• The rats could even snatch a bat flying in mid-air.
  — NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
• Lord's friend had his necklace snatched away and then he was struck.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
• And the Dodgers snatched him up quickly.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• The Ravens had the feel of a team that had its soul snatched from it.
  — Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• By day, fire ants sting them to death and seagulls snatch them from the sand.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Portland, Maine, snatched the bronze.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
• Jones read it perfectly, leaped and snatched the ball out of the sky.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• Jones snatched the ball and ran it back 26 yards for the touchdown.
  — CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
• But DadTok snatch the win in the last round.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
• But DadTok snatch the win in the last round.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
• But others were snatched from home or from the street if seen wearing the star.
  — Danielle Wirsansky, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• With a soul-stealing, heart-snatching smile.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
• Working my a$s off to get my body looking 'snatched' again as the kids call it 😜.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
• She hadn’t been snatched by a serial killer and thrown into a car.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Finn was in his favorite spot when he was snatched by an intruder.
  — Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• Vouchers were quickly snatched up.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• These deals last only for a few more hours, so be sure to snatch them up before they’re gone.
  — Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2022
• People have been arrested and snatched from the streets.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
• People have been arrested and snatched from the streets.
  — Lauren Costantino, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025

snatch

2 of 2 noun

• With my first lift out of the way, and having at least one good snatch on the board, the rest of the session felt like a cakewalk.
  — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
• With most large-scale national and world meets there are medals given for the heaviest snatch, heaviest clean and jerk and best overall total.
  — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
• And so, the film’s spartan spell is undone by snatches of pedestrian drama and goofy, surreal symbolism.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2025
• Basically the courts ruled on his actions as a leader and not on the legality of the snatch and grab operation itself.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
• Emerson had a 290 in the clean-and-jerk and 235 in the snatch (525 total) in the 154-pound weight class.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
• Mostun recorded a 315 in the clean-and-jerk and 245 in the snatch (560 total) in the 169-pound weight class.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
• Instead of the snatch, Chiefs offensive line coach Andy Heck taught Simmons to counter a power rush with a move called the Hamilton.
  — Pj Green may 23, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2026
• The major achievement of Ozon’s film is to adapt literature without literalizing (there are just two snatches of narration that are directly lifted from source), and to honor the novel’s mystery without trying to solve it.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
• He and the rest of the NHL players were supposed to go in 2022, only to have the COVID-19 pandemic snatch that away.
  — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• The three compressions are Spanxsmooth Swim, which is light compression for barely there smoothing; Spanxshape Swim, medium compression for a little more tummy control and shaping, and Spanxsculpt Swim, strong compression that cinches and snatches.
  — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026