WordNet
Usage examples of "snatch up".
Blaine instantly reversed course, plowing through Mage to snatch up Dacey's hand again.
But she stopped at the doorway to run back and snatch up her new fur coat.
Through them he dimly saw the priest snatch up the snake-head dagger in his unhurt hand, and glare at Blackgult, his eyes flat with hatred.
Melted caught fire and staggered, here and there around the room, and as Hawkril rolled over, new bruises shrieking, he saw Craer snatch up a fallen dagger, and fling it hard at the closest sorceress.
Again the axes fell, and again, before the first splinters fell away and impatient hands were thrust through the rents in the door to snatch up the bar inside, and let it topple away harmlessly.
He darted across almost on the heels of the last scaled creature, pushing into the crowd in time to see a wide-eyed woman snatch up a little girl in a red dress and ran with the child clutched to her bosom.
Metron walked with quick, mincing steps toward the edge, pausing once to snatch up another victim bound in spider silk.