Example Sentences

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The carrier, whose shares have risen 37% over the past year, has been snatching market share, sending the rest of the industry reeling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2015

Mr. Paulson's fund has been snatching up Lehman debt at steep discounts since the day the investment bank collapsed, betting prices would rise while panicked investors fled.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2011

Since then it has been snatching planes off Douglas and Lockheed assembly lines as fast as they were built.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plunkett strolled in with the last batch of the returning crowd, wearing on his face the virtuous look of one who has been snatching a whiff of fresh air after a hard evening's preparation.

From The Pothunters by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)