snatch's Usage Examples:

Looking ready to explode, he rose, snatching his trench coat.

The breakers would swoop back to gather themselves for a mightier leap, and I clung to the rock, tense, fascinated, as I felt the dash and roar of the rushing sea!If she knew where he kept it, she could swoop in and snatch it.

If Lancaster should justify the malevolent rumours that were afloat by making a snatch at the crown, the last state of the realm might be worse than the first.

She fell, and Brady lunged, snatching her belt as the two went over the edge.

Returning to the cell, she used the long-sleeved shirt to wipe the blood off her body quickly and then to clean the blades of the weapons she snatched off the ground.

Being able to drive at outrageous speeds in super futuristic vehicles has quite the appeal, and with the more contemporary cartoon snatching up an audience every Saturday morning, they decided to port it over as a video game for the GBA.

snatch at, if he dared.

  The tree snatched Toby and lifted him to safety, and Toby dangled far enough over Ully's head that the demon couldn't reach him.

She reminisced as her hands lovingly caressed the bottle, and then she snatched the lid off and sprayed the scent into the air.

He reached inside the truck and snatched the keys out.

Dean only caught snatches, but enough to know Cynthia was speaking to Rose, son Randy, and Jen.

And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause!"Pierre heard the French consulting whether to shoot them separately or two at a time.

Standing in the kitchen, she snatched a pen from her purse and hastily scribbled a note.

Synonyms:

clutch, seize, prehend, swoop up, snap, swoop, snatch up,

Antonyms:

ascend, rise, antiseptic, disentangle, unsnarl,