1 Gordon snatched up his jacket and left the room.

2 He snatched up his gun and fired.

3 She snatched up her briefcase and flicked it open.

4 He snatched up the telephone.

5 She leapt to her feet, snatching up her bag.

6 He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp.

7 A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires.

8 She hisses her disapproval, then snatches up the denims, and digs the key from one of the pockets.

9 Kites hover ready snatch up fish from the nets.

10 We should snatch up that deal.

11 Simultaneously the identical claw hook can snatch up and lower down the transistor frames of various widths, and the compatibility is stronger.

12 Snatch up a replica of the designer's work in Hong Kong's street markets for only a thousand, and it will take a leather expert and a microscope to tell it apart from the real McCoy.

13 I snatch up a pair of Canadian goggles that look like lizard eyes and head for the cashier.

14 He didn't answer my question directly. Smiling to snatch up my left hand, he looked at my palmistry and fortune-telling.

15 In the meantime, you can snatch up that dream house by applying for a bridge loan.

16 Upon hearing the word, the wolves begun to snatch up the only one remaining piece of meat. Finally the strongest wolf beat all other wolves and became the winner.

17 Kites hover ready to snatch up fish from the nets.

18 "A lot of the more mature people come down and snatch up the jobs, " says Stewart.

19 This letter pleased me beyond reason. I was almost moved to snatch up my pen and write a thank-you letter in return to thank him for his.

20 The outsider's impulse toward child bride rescue scenarios can be overwhelming: Snatch up the girl, punch out the nearby adults, and run.

21 This situation is changing abruptly as wealthy foreign governments and international agribusinesses snatch up large swaths of arable land along the Upper Nile.

22 Customer implies that a person walks into a store wanting to buy a CD and decides, after scanning the thousands of albums available, which one to snatch up.

23 At many venues' media centers, volunteers far outnumbered journalists, and security guards would wander in to snatch up all the uneaten snacks.