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"Snare" in a Sentence (23 examples)
A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.
A fox was caught in the snare.
A fox isn't caught twice in the same snare.
A bass drum, a snare drum, and cymbals were once all a composer needed to make a work sound exotic.
I have been living like a wolf trapped in a snare.
With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare.
But even the most spiritual life has its temptations. The extravagant fever of industrialism and intellectualism had so subtly poisoned the plant-men that when at last they rebelled against it they swung too far, falling into the snare of a vegetal life as one-sided as the old animal life had been. Little by little they gave less and less energy and time to "animal" pursuits, until at last their nights as well as their days were spent wholly as trees, and the active, exploring, manipulating, animal intelligence died in them forever.
I set a snare trap.
I set a snare, hoping to catch a rabbit.
Yanni panicked like a wolf in a snare.
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He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
[…] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
[…] and I had now liv’d two Years under these Uneasinesses, which indeed made my Life much less comfortable than it was before; as may well be imagin’d by any who know what it is to live in the constant Snare of the Fear of Man […]
“[…] riches are a great snare.”
They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.
The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
[…] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.
[…] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.
[…] drummer snaring away on his little drum, tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! r-r-rump, r-r-rump, r-r-rump! I love drums.
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