Example Sentences

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As we were snagging bags in palm trees with many spines on them, a young man watching said, “Those bags are like gum in dreadlocks.”

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

Some of her best operatives collected 200 signatures a day, but most were snagging 100 to 125 signatures outside grocery stores and shopping malls, she recalls.

From Time • Jul. 24, 2015

None of these girls were snagging million-dollar advertising contracts of the sort that exist today.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2015