What's the difference between snatched and snatcher?
Snatched
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Snatch
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(2) We caught snatches of a conversation with Amy Childs, star of docusoap The Only Way is Essex.
(3) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(4) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(5) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
(6) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
(7) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(8) According to the Guardian, the CIA has used almost 20 airports across the UK during the period when its agents have snatched terror suspects and transferred them to countries where they may be tortured.
(9) Last week ITV snatched the rights to the French Open tennis tournament , as the BBC looks to reduce what it spends on sport as part of the "Delivering Quality First" cost-cutting initiative.
(10) He told his story in animated and confused snatches.
(11) He snatches at the ball and shoots it high over the crossbar.
(12) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(13) They said their leaders are being killed and they no longer want to fight but they are afraid of going back to their communities.” The schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok in April, sparking international condemnation and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
(14) Shalit was captured by Palestinians who tunnelled from Gaza into Israel and killed two other members of his tank crew before snatching him.
(15) Messina Denaro was also part of the gang that in 1993 snatched Giuseppe di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a turncoat.
(16) She has a daughter, who is eight, but Miriama refuses to take her to visit her mother, who still lives in Africa and has never met her granddaughter, in case the child is snatched and taken to be cut, as Miriama's mother did to her.
(17) "I probably should have had a hat-trick, but I snatched at the last one, to be honest," Rooney said.
(18) Three others were snatched in another oil field on 3 February and their whereabouts also remain unknown.
(19) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
(20) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
Snatcher
Definition:
(n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody tells you how to placate the angry parents who think they’ve encountered the world’s frailest child-snatcher.
(2) QT: A series that I would like to put a spin on is the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
(3) I recently saw Master Moves Mickey advertised on television and screamed like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers .
(4) While it clearly demonstrates that they are not all child snatchers - and, indeed, take great lengths to keep families together - the series does little to dispel other stereotypical views of the profession as scruffily dressed, uncaring or negligent.
(5) I’m serious – it was like invasion of the body-snatchers.
(6) The coalition government was accused of making policy "on the hoof" yesterday after plans to remove free milk for the under-fives were summarily dropped by David Cameron amid fears it would remind voters of the "Thatcher milk snatcher" episode of the 1970s.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Personally, my favourite Nokia handset was the 7110 with the spring-loaded cover (as seen in the "The Matrix") Sadly our love affair was ended by a London bag-snatcher back in 2001 ( yes, I'm still cross about it ).
(8) He emptied two Uzi magazines on him.” “Our job was to kill criminals, rapists, [drug] pushers and snatchers.
(9) Lesson from 1971 Margaret Thatcher earned the unflattering sobriquet "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher" as education secretary in Edward Heath's government with the decision to axe free school milk for the over-sevens in 1971.
(10) The outfits sold on that occasion were those worn by her at the beginning of her career – when, in the words of a Christie’s expert, she acquired her ‘milk snatcher’ tag.
(11) As I write, the two top stories on the site are: “Pictured: The white gunman who shot dead NINE people in mass ‘race-hate’ shooting at historic black church in Carolina before sparing one woman and telling her, ‘Tell the world what happened’”; and “‘Romanian’ child-snatchers are caught trying to kidnap British children at Cyprus hotel by luring them into cars while disguised as waiters.” You get the idea.
(12) Thirty years ago, Jim Callaghan's useless Labour government was trounced by a certified snatcher of children's milk.
(13) That, or it's pods in the basement, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers-style, and "you're next!"
(14) "Bush's bodyguards couldn't handle San Telmo purse-snatcher," read a headline on the website of the country's official news agency, Telam, which said an unnamed government source had confirmed the ABC report, which was posted on their website.
(15) Last Monday, News Corp revealed in the Australian newspaper that it was taking legal action against the Daily Mail and accused its journalists of being “copy snatchers and parasites”.
(16) Her only concession to the Treasury was to withdraw free school milk for seven- to 11-year-olds, a gift to political opponents (who skilfully conjured the image of a woman withholding her teats from babies) that earned her the soubriquet "milk-snatcher".
(17) News Corp Australia has taken aim at its new local online competitor Daily Mail Australia, accusing the news website of plagiarism and labelling its journalists “copy snatchers and parasites”.
(18) This earned her the moniker "Thatcher, Thatcher milk-snatcher": she might as well have snatched the dummies out of babies' mouths, so loud was the outcry.
(19) Contrary to the view that social workers are simply child snatchers, the programme shows the complexity and challenges of working with damaged individuals and families, demonstrates that social workers are human, and captures the hostility that many encounter.
(20) Later, it was the “milk snatcher” policies of then education minister, Margaret Thatcher, that galvanised me into action.