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15 Sentences With "snatching at"

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The images don't cohere; Mr. Morris seems to be snatching at ideas.
But then if hitting cups and snatching at digits to defend chokes were legal any fighter with ten or so fights would probably struggle to sign his own name and be sterile.
Little Jaafar, now 16-months-old, wide-eyed, smiling and well-groomed, was meanwhile snatching at everything in his reach and fidgeting to escape his grandmother's lap for a few steps before quickly returning to her.
They're followed by a once-in-a-lifetime Primus headline set, during which the man next to me looks like he's actually trying to eat the music, his mouth snatching at Les Claypool's six-string equipped heady basslines.
The spouses were rattled—Franny's husband, Marvin, ill at ease out of his security-guard uniform, Fred's wife, Erma, sighing and snatching at her hair, Rose's husband, Walter, monkeying with a camera as a way of snubbing everyone else.
Instead, they looted the house, even snatching at the women's veils. The rebels left the house and the supporters of Uthman at the gate heard them and entered, but it was too late.
They live in the thick fog of exhaust gases on the main motorway under the city, tracking the flying cars by their lights and snatching at them when they get too close. The Doctor says that the species is billions of years old and once developed a small empire as "the scourge of this galaxy", but the Macra beneath New New York must have devolved into nothing more than beasts.
"[T]he dynamics of competitive journalism created a media feeding frenzy that found news workers 'snatching at shocking numbers' and 'smothering reports of stable or decreasing use under more ominous headlines.'", reprinted as chapter 2 of Potter and Kapeller (1998, pp. 37-51, esp. p. 42) The reasons cited above for increased incarcerations (US racial demographics, Increased sentencing laws, and Drug sentencing laws) have been described as consequences of the shift in editorial policies of the mainstream media.
On the other hand, Murugavel's brother tries to kill Murugavel by adding poison to the food bought for him, but Murugavel refuses to eat for three consecutive days. On the place where Murugavel has set his vegetable shop, he meets Madonna (Nivetha Pethuraj) a policewoman who comes to collect bribes from local shopkeepers. At night, Murugavel's brother plans the next operation of snatching at a spot near Murugavel's shop. He is revealed as a police officer to his brother that night and chases his brother through the streets.
The Ten Pounder 1, Edinburgh 1832, pp.87-8 And in the following decade, a member of parliament who had given up his place in order to stand unsuccessfully for a more prestigious constituency was lampooned in the press as "most appropriately represented as the dog in the fable who, snatching at the shadow, lost the substance".An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B. (London, 1841), item 484, p.335 More recently, the fable has been used to teach a psychological lesson by the Korean choreographer Hong Sung-yup.
Closer to the Truth, Cher's 25th studio album and the first since 2001's Living Proof, entered the Billboard 200 at number three in October 2013, her highest position on that chart to date. Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe commented that "Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'". Cher premiered the lead single "Woman's World" on the season four finale of the talent show The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade.
Being much shorter than the predominant multiple units, electric locomotives can suffer from a problem known as "gapping" - becoming marooned between supplies at breaks in the electrical supply and snatching at the couplings whilst moving as they come on and off the power. The latter places undue stress on couplings and has been known to cause separations of a train. Raworth overcame this by having a motor-generator set (booster) with a large flywheel on the shaft between the two. The traction current, instead of feeding the traction motors directly through the control assembly, powered a large motor which turned a shaft with the flywheel and fed into the generator.
Williams qualified for his second final of the season and commented on his playing style: "To do that is ludicrous but that shows how my head went. I was disgusted with myself but jabbing and snatching at everything seemed to work so I'll be sticking with that against Stephen." The best-of-13 frames final between Hendry and Williams was held on the evening of 25 February. Williams won the first frame on a break of 42, and finished with a score of 75–20. Hendry won the next six frames with breaks of 57, 70, 56, 41 and 87 and the black in the eighth to win the competition 7–1.
Meanwhile, Conan's eldest son, also called Conan, is now twenty years old - a very worthy son and heir who has already given a very good account of himself at the age of thirteen (Conan of Aquilonia), and is fully ready to assume the throne. Suddenly, there is a new crisis: Conan's old friend and loyal supporter, Count Trocero of Poitian, is snatched away from the Council Chamber itself by Red Shadows, mystical entities of unknown origin. Although it happened in front of Conan himself, inside a room filled with courtiers and guards, there was nothing anyone could do against these insubstantial shadows who suddenly appear, grab a man, and disappear along with him. This is followed by the Red Shadows striking again and again, snatching at random men and women of all ages or social positions.
E.A. Gruning extended and transformed the appearance of Bedhampton church in 1869 and 1878; George Edmund Street and Arthur Blomfield's three rounds of alterations at St Mary's on Hayling Island were "fairly thorough but conservative"; architect Francis Bacon undertook a modest programme of work at St Peter's Church on the island in the 1880s; and St Faith's in Havant was largely rebuilt. In contrast, Warblington's parish church saw little alteration: the main 19th-century addition was a pair of grave-watchers' huts in the churchyard, prompted by the prevalence of body snatching at that time. Two mission chapels associated with St Faith were also founded during this era. Langstone Mission Church, now dedicated to St Nicholas, was built by a churchwarden at St Faith's: it was attached to his house, Langstone Towers, but has always been available for public worship.

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