She has wisely concluded that a lot of our happiness in this life has to be snatched from the Fates who dangle it before our eyes, just out of our reach.
He snatched his soft hat from a rack as he reached with his other hand for the heavy latch of the front door.
Haven't I a right to snatch--what was snatchedfrom me?
Then, quick as thought, Perseus leaped forward and snatched both of the precious things from her hand.
One of them snatched Atalanta's spear from her hand, and dragged the prize from her shoulders, and the other pushed her rudely and bade her go back to Arcadia and live again with the she-bears on the mountain side.
I have snatched every spare moment--and they were none too many--to put together these fragmentary notes, which I have received sanction to publish.
Each took with him his most treasured possessions or what he had hastily snatched up in his house.
A boy snatched it from her hand and carried it to DeWitt, who read it rapidly.
Again she called the copy boy and, as he snatchedit from her hand, rolled still another sheet into the typewriter.
Yet as the banner of the Covenant fell from the hand of one, it was snatched up by another, and defiantly given to the breeze.
The true servants of God writhed in shame and sorrow, as they saw the diadem of Christ snatched from His brow and clutched by a presumptuous man.
She blessed the prudent De Vallance who had snatched him from sure destruction, and rejoiced at an event which afforded her the means of seeing human nature in its most captivating form.
Surprise extorted from her a loud shriek; and the disabled Evellin snatched a carbine, which stood charged within his reach, and pointed it at the invader of their retreat.
She was so glad to see her Aunt Jane's pet again that she snatched her hand out of Prowler's paw, and ran toward the Pirate Chief.
Then all the more for us that does," said Prowler, and he snatched the dish in his turn away from Growler and emptied all that was left of it on his own plate.
The Gentleman Goose reached over the Lady Goose's shoulder, snatched the spectacles off her nose without so much as by your leave, set them crookedly on his own, and looked over them long and earnestly at Ann.
They rushed on Peter, just as he had helped himself to an enormous slice of mince pie, and while Ann threw her arms about his neck, Rudolf snatched the tempting morsel out of his hand and cast it in the fire.
At that Rudolf lowered the old doll almost into the blaze, and she would most certainly have burned up, she was so very dry and crackly, if at that very moment Aunt Jane had not come into the room and snatched her out of his hand.
He snatchedthe Baby from Anthea, who turned scarlet and burst into tears of pure rage.
Mr Beale snatched the coin, bit it, and put it in his pocket.
Enraged, inflamed, distracted, she snatched a Bodkin, and with all her Force stabbed me to the Heart.
Torfrida snatchedit from his grasp with a shriek, and cast it inside the convent door.
She almost snatched it from his hand, in her delight at recovering her favor.
And Ywar was kicked into the cold, while Thorold raged up and down his chamber in mantle and slippers, wringing his hands over the treasure of the Golden Borough, snatched from his fingers just as he was closing them upon it.
He snatched his arms off a perch, and hurried out again, dragging them on.
And she snatched the mug from the feeble hand of her messenger and began drinking eagerly.
When I had finished explaining the nature of an object, all the children snatched at it and quarreled for its possession.
Leaping lightly from his troublesome captive, Dick snatched up a heavy club of firewood that lay nearby.
What happened next was that Dick snatched the flaming red parasol from her hand, then swung her shoulders about, thus forcing the girl to face in another direction.
But Dick landed close beside the sawed-off shotgun, which he snatched from the ground as he rose to his feet.
In his right, hand he held a gold chain and locket that he had snatched from Laura Bentley's neck.
Catching sight of the gold fittings, he snatched up the dressing-case, and would have wrenched off the precious metal.
He snatched every spare moment at the anvil and forge as though it were gold.
After his fiftieth year he devoted two hours a day, snatched from his sleep, to improving himself in orthography, grammar, and writing.
Eric, who was imaginative, thought that the surf seemed to be triumphing in having snatched another life.
He snatched every opportunity, too, to get ahead with his studies, and luck came his way in a most unexpected shape.
I've seen some wonderful examples of fellows just snatched back to life long after we thought they had gone.
The animal looked like the one that had snatched the pocketbook off the bench and had run into Mr. Foswick's carpenter shop with it.
Bunny and Sue had been playing in the yard before going to the store for their mother when the strange dog had sprung over the fence, snatched up the pocketbook, and had run off with it, darting into the carpenter shop.
He snatched frantically at the precious pebbles, chattering madly.
Maud Morris snatched it rather than took it, apprehension in her eyes.
No sooner had the slave reached the gates of the palace than the magician snatched the lamp eagerly, and thrusting it as far as he could into his breast, offered the slave his basket, and bade her choose the lamp she liked best.
Aladdin saw all this, and the moment the pretended woman came within reach, he snatched the dagger and plunged it into the heart of the traitorous magician, at the same time pushing him to the floor.
Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill.
Count Ganelon, riding by, snatched the spear from his hand and broke it into splinters.
While he lay there in agony a Saracen appeared plundering the dead and as he stole by Roland he saw the glitter of Durendal's hilt and put out his hand and snatched the sword.
While listening to the revolutionary decree which snatched away his throne, the descendant of Saint Louis, Henry IV.
Roederer, going on to the terrace, snatched the pole and flung it into the garden.
Scraggy bounded into the inner room, and, once out of sight of the watchful eyes of Lem, snatched up the infant and pressed her lips passionately to the rosy skin.
The yacht shot away up the river, and was lost to the dull eyes that continued peering for a last glimpse of the phantom-like boat that had snatched her dying treasure from her.
But fate did not long permit him to enjoy these privileges, and before he had begun to feel the joy of living, his protector was snatched away from him.
Death had snatched away the commentator on the Talmud in the midst of his labors at Troyes; his pupils exerted themselves to complete whatever had been left unfinished by him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snatched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
