1.   He does catch occasional rat, but his favorite dish is New York pigeon, which he sometimes snatches in midair.

2.   High-rent lofts are being snatched up in the city center.

3.   Hull tried to whip the puck in, but, outstretched sideways on the ice, Brodeur snatched it in his glove.

4.   Some are here to plug a book, hoping it will be hungrily snatched up in the crowded bookstores around Harvard Square.

5.   The New York Mets thought they had a chance to snatch Griffey in a trade in December, but he rejected the idea.

6.   When the Bulls left him unprotected and the Raptors snatched him in the June expansion draft, Armstrong asked to be traded to a contender.

7.   He claimed that he had been snatched in Albania by a gang that exploits young children.

8.   His odyssey ended Monday when Turkish special forces snatched him in Kenya.

9.   Lamia police chief Vassilis Dinas said the Panathinaiakos fan was snatched in the capital and dragged onto a bus hired by members of an Olympiakos supporters club.

10.   Many alleged eyewitness sightings of Tadic were glimpses snatched in prison camps where staring at camp personnel could cost a prisoner his or her life.