Make off with belongings of others.
Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom.
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Examples for "snatch"
Examples for "snatch"
1Paula was absolutely right: Valean could not be allowed to snatch Laril.
2They may well have been trying to snatch a vehicle, he said.
3I could see him beginning to snatch up all the available rationalizations.
4That's why you have the power to snatch me away from Earth.
5I thought for sure she would snatch the bird from the air.
1The FARC holds hundreds of kidnap victims for ransom and political leverage.
2The police said that whoever had done this would kidnap another victim.
3People are going hungry and those with money feel threatened by kidnap.
4They were able to kidnap one Frenchman, Amin told The Associated Press.
5How about answering my first question -why would anyone kidnap you?
1Rights groups accuse him of using armed squads to abduct suspected separatists.
2Why should his late majesty abduct the daughter of the grand duke?
3And I never did abduct and sell into slavery any negro persons!
4The intention had been only to abduct him from Turkey, the sources said.
5But you were right this morning, when you said you'd been abducted.
1With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
2We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble?
3Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
4Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
5Attempts had been made to "nobble" a referee.
6There was a particular old Labour grandee who used to nobble me in order to give me 'sound advice'.
7She did it for Ronnie a while back when there was talk of someone trying to nobble his horses.
8Such things could well and truly nobble a band from the outset, but Edinburgh's Broken Records seem to be made of sterner stuff.
9If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
10The suspicion is that the Treasury was simply nobbled by bookies' lobbyists.
11Nobble they thought was the foulest place which they had ever seen.
12If anybody had done well at Nobble, Mr. Crinkett had done well.
13Then Downing Street briefed about how it had nobbled the foreign secretary.
14Environmental lawyer Simon Berry said DOC had been 'nobbled' by the previous government.
15More art: how litigation and forgeries are nobbling the art trade.
16She could not account for the absence of the Nobble postmark.
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