snatched

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• The subtext of the clown is that life is a joke and can be snatched away at any moment.

• The Germans and Japanese have snatched their customers away in North America.

• The man snatched the weapon, and turned back toward the image of Obama.

• He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap.

• Vladimir Putin snatched Crimea from Ukraine as a strategic, patriotic, and touristic prize.

• Mademoiselle snatched it from the hand, which was very tiny, and pink, with dimples where grown up folk have knuckles.

• Keeping up an ululating clamor of commands, he ran to the roof of the dwelling, snatched up a musket and took steady aim.

• The guard who had ridden up in front snatched at his shoulder holster as he turned in the direction of Delancy's fire.

• We snatched a hasty morsel or two, and then hurried on, in order to complete the second half of the road before sunset.

• Thereon, Augereau in fury snatched the whip from the officer, who at once drew his sword and attacked him.