1987 November 8, Ron Hansen, “CHILDREN'S BOOKS; DISCOVERING THE OPPOSITE SEX”, inThe New York Times[1]:
Laurasnatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
It was a joy tosnatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
1940 July, “Notes and News: A Magnificent Transport Achievement”, inRailway Magazine, page419:
No department of the Southern Railway escaped some share of the work involved, and the outdoor traffic and locomotive staffs in particular were engaged literally night and day,snatching a few hours' sleep as opportunity offered, until the task was completed.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, inThe Guardian[2]:
You might now reason that even a 12-minute walk to the store to buy a can of beans is too great an expenditure of time, and that the fee paid for one-hour delivery is a fair price tosnatch those minutes back into your life.
2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, inRAIL, number972, page35:
In 1914, theHendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment was this: "For many years now I have never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret is that I am not attached to a slow goods train, so that I couldsnatch time to eat some plum-pudding."
And he[…] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with asnatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again;[…]
But, purgatory as the place would appear, the stranger advances into it; and, like Orpheus in his gay descent to Tartarus, lightly hums to himself an operasnatch.
Dan: Hey, Ani, I found my keys! They were in my pocket. Ani: That's great, Dan! Of course, I've never lost mine. Dan: Really? Where do you keep yours? Ani: In mysnatch!
2008, Jim Craig,North to Disaster[6], Bushak Press,→ISBN, page178:
“[…]You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of hersnatch?”
If, after the pilot notices the overspeed, he deploys the spoilers, or if aileron "snatch" rolls the airplane to an excessive bank angle, it may become impossible to recover.
