Synonyms:
snatch, snatch_up, snap
Meaning: to grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone"
Synonyms:
snatch
Meaning: to make grasping motions; "the cat snatched at the butterflies"
Usage examples
I'll snatch the time somehow.
"Snatch their pikes from them!"
I snatch at the first offer, the first hint of an opening.'
And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it.
Joam Garral was ready to throw himself on Torres, to search him, to snatch from him the proofs of his innocence.
"Snatch that light away, Betsy, you old foolain't you got any sense? Put it on the floor behind the front door.
Nothing, however, could be done until the morning, and, securing ourselves as well as possible, we endeavoured to snatch a little repose.
One day in a rage he undertook to beat me with the limb of a cherry-tree; he began at me and tried in the first place to snatch my clothes off, but he did not succeed.
Sometimes after having been roasted in the fire, the natives snatch it briskly from the embers, and permitting it to slip out of the yielding rind into a vessel of cold water, stir up the mixture, which they call 'bo-a-sho'.
John Hanks says: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." The picture may be lacking in grace, but its truthfulness is beyond question.