What is "snatches"

Usage examples of "snatches".

Time and much practice had enabled them to carry on snatches of shortened conversation, and mass murder among the upper classes of Larinum was wonderful cover.

Forum Romanum on his way to the Clivus Argentarius, Caesar heard snatches of talk which all revolved around the prospect of yet another civil war.

Leaves lapped up the foundation of the house and, rising individually in the snatches of suddenly spun winds, seemed to be seeking impossible reattachments to the surrendering trees.

Laughter and snatches of music rebounded from the stony heights to carry the festival to the ships.