They closed it once, but I opened it again on a crack, and that aroused the suspicions of Rufus Sprague, who stepped out quickly and nabbed me.
He might havenabbed ’em, instead of running away and hollering like a loon,” asserted Stickney.
We ran him down over behind Turkey Hill and nabbed him.
When they nabbed the other pair and couldn’t find you, it seemed that all the luck was yours.
So they nabbed you after all, Thirteen-thirteen,” said the first prisoner.
We have nabbed the man who went out with him, and got him safe at Barkingham.
Crowley, our pinch artist, nabbed him and bawled out Elsham, who was weeping in the cab.
The Vose-Mern system thus nabbed the culprit, who had revealed his lack of moral fiber by reason of the hothouse forcing of the situation; Mern insisted that if the germ were there it should be forced.
Latisan strode across the room, nabbed Crowley by the ear, and led him into the tavern office, where the aching ear was twisted until the city man subsided into a chair.
Then, one had died of dysentery, contracted from working constantly in water up to his middle; another had been nabbed in a manhunt and clapped into the "logs.
Yes, commanding me to drop investigation of that hold-up gang that the police nabbed on West 16th St. last week.
But I'll bet they thought they had hold of a wildcat when they nabbed him.
It'll be a mighty good joke to tell your cronies at mess tomorrow how the Yankee schweinhund thought he had you and then got nabbed himself.
Almost nabbed him at York, but he managed to slip through the 'tec's fingers.
Had I been informed directly the Air people made the discovery, I'd have nabbed him before this.
It seems he owned up to the whole business when they first nabbed him, and the only thing he can do now is to plead guilty.
Chief Waller took but one look and then threw up his hands, exclaiming: "Jules Garrone, and nabbed by a parcel of boys.
I knew they couldn't be on to my hiding-place or they'd have nabbed me before this.
The Bachelor Beauty had come home, Mag, and nabbed the poor Princess, instead of her catching him napping.
Yes, but suppose the sharknabbed the hunter before he had a chance to use his weapon," Ralph suggested.
Why, he went ragin' back and made a dive for one of the stokers that was up at the engine-room hatchway gettin' a bit of fresh air, and he almost nabbed him.
Captain, the First Lieutenant, the New President and his boss men and fairly nabbed us.
I was on my feet and had turned in a second, and there was that little brute who had been shadowing Gerald, and had nabbed me up at Santa Cruz.
It is only poor devils nabbed for their fifties and their hundreds that are ever done up,' says this keen observer.
A nob was never nabbed for the sum you are, sir, and never went to the wall.
He was trying to bring me to when some Frenchies came running up and nabbed him.
We have nabbedthem both, Phil," said Mr. Rockwood.
Instead of that, we were nabbed by this excellent gentleman as soon as we stepped upon the sidewalk.
Peaches Lantfeld knocked a sharp grounder that looked almost certain to get past the shortstop; and it did, but the third baseman, who was a rattling good player, nabbed it and Peaches went down.
Joe knocked a safety, or at least it looked as if it was going to be that, but the shortstop, by a magnificent jump into the air, nabbed it, and then came as pretty a double play as had ever taken place on that diamond.
We haven't been nabbed yet, and if you and I are not smart enough to keep out of trouble we ought to be locked up; that's my philosophy of the situation.
He's a smart fellow," Bowman continued, "and he led the police a long chase before they nabbed him.
I thought the police had nabbed me, but all's safe so far.
The next day I went up to the jail to take the boys something to eat, when they nabbed and locked me up also.
He darted in, and nabbed the bait more like a goggle-eye than a sucker, but he was caught all the same.
I commenced looking around, and soon found a friend I could trust, so I gave him all the money my partner and I had, and then I did not care how quick they nabbed me.
After Bill had mixed them up and said he was ready, the sucker made a dive and nabbed the card with the mark on it, but it was not the winner.
He came back here to his regular stand, and we nabbed him for questioning.
To put it bluntly, in elegant words such as you can understand, we have nabbed a guy who looks like one of Winslow's pals.
I heard him ask Doc and Charlie to wait for him, but she nabbed him before he could get out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nabbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
