Object

• equalizer: Then, with just seconds left on the clock, Colin Stein snatched a dramatic equalizer for Rangers.

• victory: Seaford had snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

• squad: A kind of snatch squad got sent through the police lines.

• handbag: I was warned about drug addicts ripping jewelry off people, snatching handbags and so on as they seek money to feed their habits.

• defeat: Then we managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

• purse: However, watch out for young men on bicycles who try to snatch purses, handbags or cameras.

Modifying Another Word

• cruelly: But for some, that lifeline has been cruelly snatched away.

• away: Do you live for a certain amount of time only to be snatched away from that distant reality to the reality of things?

• suddenly: Car co insurance op won't suddenly snatch in which the.

• nearly: This brilliant showmanship very nearly snatched the MBE from Bob.

• almost: In 1999 overall victory was almost snatched by the ladies winner A Reid, who was just 3 seconds behind male N Davenport.

• in: He looked slightly reluctant but had run in snatches throughout.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• away: But goals on 86 and 87 minutes saw the points cruelly snatched away from them and sent Sutton into hyperactive celebrations.

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: He lived 27 years 4 months 11 days. " Sudden death snatched away the prime of his life " .

• up: At the same moment he snatched up a knife that had been left lying on the ground.

Preposition: of

• conversation: Even my husband had not heard the whole tale, only bits gleaned from snatches of conversation.

• dialog: Snatches of dialog stick to the walls of your memory.

• song: They were singing snatches of the song of the revolt, most of them out of tune.

• tune: Opens with a snatch of the theme tune to BBC TV's 50s/60s police series Dixon of Dock Green.

Preposition: from

• jaw: A good trip snatched from the jaws of incompetence.