"snatch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Flying-fish eggs floating on the surface are the main part of the black-footed albatross diet, but the birds also snatch flying fish as they flit past.
- It has been speculated that Ambulocetids hunted like crocodiles, lurking in the shallows to snatch unsuspecting riparian prey and fish.
- Wading in the shallows right beside the shore, he tried without success to snatch fish out of the water with his hands.
- Birds swirl, herons swooping to snatch fish from swamps that stretch on to a horizon of murk.
- The long-neckedElasmosaurs swam slowly while their heads snatched fish with the quickness of a snake's strike.
- This occasionally results in seals or sea lions snatching hooked fish still on the line and making off with them, causing much consternation and fun stories to tell later.
- The festival site in Essex provides the right combination of tall trees, undeveloped land and open water, enabling the eagles to hunt birds and snatch fish with their talons.
- The bats can distinguish between the ripples created by, say, leaves and twigs, and those of prey, and swoop down to snatch fish out of the water with the large claws on their feet.
- Their method was as surface swimmers, mostly eating with their head above water, darting down to snatch smaller fish which were feeding on plankton.
- At the front they form a large, intermeshing "prey grab", that may have been used to snatch fish from the water surface.
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