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Example sentences for "snaring"

Lexicographically close words:
snapshots; snapt; snare; snared; snares; snarl; snarled; snarling; snarls; snarly
  1. Fortunately it exists in great numbers, but its snaring is to be deprecated.

  2. In France their numbers have been for years systematically reduced by the snaring and destruction of them, in various ways, for table use.

  3. I spent September in snaring thrushes; but at the end of the month, even this rather tiresome sport failed me.

  4. The commonest way of snaring antelope is by covering about an acre of ground thickly with nooses and driving a herd over it.

  5. This plan is also adopted for snaring ravine deer, but not often, as the gazelle is said to be harder to train than the black buck.

  6. But when the rutting season is over, the hunting is done by snaring or stalking or trailing.

  7. We hunters usually take moose by shooting or snaring them, and the first thing to do is to find a track, and if it is old, follow it up until new signs appear.

  8. Snaring rabbits was a harmless enterprise; snaring pheasants was poaching; and poaching was not a girl's work.

  9. Only he pointed out that he could not be quite sure of never snaring a pheasant, for pheasants went everywhere.

  10. The only thing is, we don't know nearly enough about snaring pheasants.

  11. Hendrik did not think the idea of snaring a good one.

  12. This too, was abandoned after a few days, and the Indians returned to their traps, and to the snaring of rabbits.

  13. At dinner-time Elia informed her that there were some jack-rabbits in a bluff just outside the village, and declared his intention of snaring them for her that night.

  14. Elia's gone snaring jack-rabbits on the bluff, out back," she said unsuspiciously.

  15. These are called hunting-spiders, because they hunt their prey instead of snaring it.

  16. In the first place, they use it for snaring insects.

  17. Weighing the evidence offered by the torpedo attack, and the snaring and dragging of Matt into the water, had not resulted in bringing out very much that was of importance.

  18. The story of Maui's "Snaring the Sun" was told among the Maoris of New Zealand, the Kanakas of the Hervey and Society Islands, and the ancient natives of Hawaii.

  19. Snaring "suckers" out of the deep meadow brook used to be about as good as any that I had.

  20. This is called snaring a mare, and in the clever setting of these traps consists the whole success and art of the hunter.

  21. He sent for Boudoux, and asked him which were the best bird-snaring pools in the forest?

  22. Boudoux had two snaring pools, one on the road to Vivières, and the other on the road to Compiègne.

  23. However, in recent years, shooting and a special form of snaring of murres have increased dramatically and seem to have endangered the murre population.

  24. Investigations are under way to monitor further changes in murre numbers, and to determine the trend, and whether reductions in shooting and snaring are necessary to maintain the population.

  25. Shooting and snaring appear to be the primary causes of the decline; oil pollution and toxic chemicals do not seem to be contributing to the population decrease.

  26. Guided by the radiant moonlight, I could see the very spot on which Mary and I had stood to watch the snaring of the ducks.

  27. Previous to the general use of guns the snaring method was of greater importance than at the present day.

  28. A third method pursued is that of snaring the deer.

  29. Two of the best auxiliaries to a short supply of provisions that a party can take on any trip in the wilds of Ontario or Quebec, are gill-net and snaring wire.

  30. Snaring is the principal way in which the lynxes are killed by the North American Indians.

  31. A few days after an Indian visited the post for an additional supply of ammunition and snaring twine, and I took the opportunity to enlist his services to kill my beaver.

  32. I snared that rabbit; been snaring them all summer; going to keep on snaring them after you're gone.

  33. Faithful preachers cried out against the traffic in shame, the snaring of young girls and the immodesty and immorality which were found in convents, and even in churches.

  34. The White Slave Trade means two things, snaring girls and spreading disease.

  35. Again, the Malay wizard, who is engaged in snaring pigeons with the help of a decoy-bird and a calling-tube, must on no account call things by their common names.

  36. The translator has left out the chapters on trapping and snaring of wild beasts which were contained in the original, the hunting with running hounds being the typical and most esteemed form of the sport.

  37. We had not gone far when we saw an Indian in a large field of maize near the road, engaged in snaring the red-headed, green parroquets, which are here very numerous, and do much mischief to the crops of corn.

  38. I arranged a bird-snaring party with an old comrade of mine, a playmate of my younger days, who had been somewhat neglected since de la Ponce and Adolphe had not only taken hold of my affections but were influencing my life.

  39. It was a strange thing that, although when younger I had taken such pleasure in this sport that I often lay sleepless the night before, this present snaring had no power to distract my heart from the anguish weighing upon it.


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