1. snatching - Noun
2. snatching - Verb
of Snatch
Source: Webster's dictionarySnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. Tennessee Williams
We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. Cressida Cowell
They took infants from their mothers' breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, "Boil there, you offspring of the devil!" Bartolomé de las Casas
Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back. Dominique Swain
Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious. J. B. Priestley
Everyone's effort will be directed toward snatching a scrap of fraternal privilege from the legislature. The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success. Frédéric Bastiat