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Example sentences for "snare"

Lexicographically close words:
snappy; snaps; snapshot; snapshots; snapt; snared; snares; snaring; snarl; snarled
  1. They hunt with guns, and snare grouse, marten, and hares.

  2. Not remarkable for their activity as hunters, owing to the ease with which they snare deer and spear fish.

  3. The Californians are but poor hunters; they prefer the snare to the bow and arrow.

  4. They also snare birds by means of whalebone nooses, round which fine gravel is scattered as a bait.

  5. If you put works in the place of faith, they become a snare to you.

  6. There are so many crooked ways, and pitfalls, and snares in the world; there is the power of the flesh, and the snare of the devil.

  7. By constant practice a wonderful dexterity may be acquired in this trick; men will snare almost any bird in broad daylight.

  8. Your place, in my opinion, is wherever a snare is laid; hence nothing is more natural than your presence.

  9. It is not true, I know, but he believes it, and no doubt the object of the interview he wishes with you is to lay a snare for you.

  10. I am the snare which has entrapped the Huguenots; but I will enter, if I am killed in the attempt!

  11. A thrill of indescribable joy pervaded Henry's weary heart, but he guessed the snare and his strong and supple soul rebounded.

  12. This is not a snare laid to entrap me, madam?

  13. But Satan had laid a snare for me, into which I blindly fell.

  14. She failed in propitiating him at the meeting in the ruined church of Whalley last night, when thou thyself wert present, and deliveredst Dorothy Assheton from the snare in which she was taken.

  15. It may be a snare laid for them, but they run the risk.

  16. Motor Matt's Close Call; or, The Snare of Don Carlos.

  17. Come, let us see that all men Have land to catch the rain, Have grass to snare the spheres of dew, And fields spread for the grain.

  18. A Net to Snare the Moonlight [What the Man of Faith said] The dew, the rain and moonlight All prove our Father's mind.

  19. Stern but in this--no way of thorns Shall snare the children's feet.

  20. Mr. Spencer Smith, the British envoy at Stuttgard, was engaged in a similar intrigue, which appears also to have been a snare spread for him by the French Government.

  21. With one iota less of prudence and presence of mind, Lord Elgin must have been entangled in the snare which was so treacherously spread for him.

  22. This was a snare too skilfully laid to be suspected by the drunken bishop.

  23. Is it not evident that your priest’s celibacy is a snare and an institution of Satan?

  24. Find a hollow stick or a bone to protect the snare from the rabbit's teeth.

  25. Once Antler set a snare in a rabbit path just high enough to catch the rabbit's head.

  26. Then the sapling sprang up and jerked the snare upward.

  27. This snare is placed across a hole about the size of a crown piece, and consists of a strong noose made of horsehair, which is fixed to a peg, and so arranged that the slightest touch causes it to rebound and catch them by the leg.

  28. Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

  29. Once more, note that His servants sin when they allow themselves to be so mixed up with the world that they are in peril of learning its ways and getting a snare to their souls.

  30. Our soul is like a bird escaped from the fowlers' snare; The snare is broken, and we--we are escaped.

  31. For He, He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler From the pestilence that destroys.

  32. When my spirit wraps itself in gloom upon me, Then Thou--Thou knowest my path; In the way wherein I have to go They have hidden a snare for me.

  33. The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet from Thy precepts I do not stray.

  34. The proud have hidden a snare for me and cords, They have spread a net hard by the path, They have set gins for me.

  35. Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the doers of iniquity.

  36. In Esther's time also, when the Jews came from under the snare of Haman, they brought with them to God many of the people of the provinces.

  37. As it is written (Luke 21:35) 'For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

  38. Tis man only that delighteth to dance about the mouth of hell, and to be knowingly smitten with Satan's snare (Rom 1:32).

  39. And this temptation, were it not that we have to do with a God that is faithful, would assuredly be a great snare unto them.

  40. Then will all the world be caught at such an unexpected time, that it will come upon them, even as a snare cometh upon those creatures that are caught in it.

  41. Also, thou must tell them how sad thy state was when thou wast in their condition, and so labour to recover them out of the snare of the devil (Mark 5:19).

  42. It is a snare by which increased representation from the rebel States may come into Congress, * * while we have no security at all that the extended elective franchise will be continued in the rebel States to the black population.

  43. I had not an hour to lose in setting my snare for these plotters.

  44. See the snare that is spreading beneath your feet; read aright the bright glance that shines on you from those handsome, fateful eyes.

  45. He was exceedingly rich, and a snare wrought of gold was the only one he knew of.

  46. Sybil's lip trembled; the snare was about her feet.

  47. She divines the snare laid for her and turns away.

  48. She divines the snare laid for her, and turns away.

  49. If, in fact, it is only illusion which hides from us the horror of existence and makes life tolerable to us, then existence is a snare and life an evil.

  50. The third of these replies is the most cogent as regards Pascal, but the real weakness of his attack lies in that nervous dread of appeal to first principles and their logical result which has been the besetting snare of Gallicanism.

  51. Therefore if fasting were a matter of precept, all who do not fast would sin mortally, and a widespreading snare would be laid for men.

  52. They that will become rich, fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil.

  53. Ah'm show you som' deer in a trap--Ah'm snare heem just now.

  54. His face and arms were scratched and bleeding, and when he told his sister what had happened, she was grieved to think that she had made the snare which had brought so much sorrow to the innocent dormouse.

  55. She made a snare of this, but he said, "That will not do," and began to cry again.

  56. So she made a snare like the one used to catch moose.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.