Sentence examples of "snatch away" in English
While they were away on vacation, their neighbors looked after the dog.
Cuando ellos estaban de vacaciones, sus vecinos cuidaron al perro.
She turned her face away so he wouldn't see her tears.
Ella giró la cabeza para que él no viera sus lágrimas.
I would rather throw the money away than give it to him.
Preferiría regalar el dinero que dárselo a él.
She's so cheap that she uses tea bags three times before she throws them away.
Ella es tan tacaña que usa la misma bolsita de té tres veces antes de tirarla.
If anyone calls me up while I'm away, tell them I'll be back by five.
Si alguien me llama mientras no estoy, dile que volveré a las cinco.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Los alemanes tienen una forma inhumana de cortar sus verbos. Un verbo ya lo pasa bastante mal cuando está entero. Es completamente inhumano partirlo. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hacen los alemanes. Cogen una parte del verbo y la ponen aquí, como una estaca, y cogen la otra parte y la ponen allá a lo lejos, como otra estaca, y simplemente cavan en alemán entre estos dos límites.
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