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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of snare.

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Examples

  • Cedric Griffin snared the ball in mid-air and cruised into the end zone for a 34-22 Texas lead.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

  • The very first chapter title snared me: No More Fear, No More Excuses.

    7 Deadly Fears of Writing – Part 1 of 8 Harry 2007

  • Nalbandian appeared snared from the start, opening the match with a double fault.

    USATODAY.com - Australia's Hewitt takes Wimbledon 2002

  • But Devil couldn't watch two ropes at once, and Roosevelt 'snared' him from the corral fence while Merrifield was whirling his rope for the throw.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • Maier was an 12-year-old New York Yankees fan in 1996 when he infamously reached out from the bleachers and "snared" what looked to be a certain double off the wall.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • Next, hidden under the water of the brook in a netted hand-bag, he brought to light the carcass of a fat wood-pigeon he had snared the previous day.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • And these people knew not the wisdom of my people, in that they snared and pitted their meat and in battle used clubs and stone throwing-sticks and were unaware of the virtues of arrows swift - flying, notched on the end to fit the thong of deer-sinew, well - twisted, that sprang into straightness when released to the spring of the ask-stick bent in the middle.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • MIAMI — Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history.

    Massive Nationwide Medicare Bust AP 2011

  • I was falling, snared in the web of dreams, twisting, turning, bound and slipping and then . . .

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Yea! though thou give me no more flesh, yet will I live alone in the forest, and eat the seed of grasses, and likewise rabbits, that are easily snared.

    THE FIRST POET 2010

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