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• Jones snared the liner and then stepped on the bag to double up the runner.From the entry double up
• Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.From the entry leather
• A well-timed snare drum enlivened the music.From the entry well-timed
• Let us together escape the snare of Thyatira and hold fast to the crown of ultimate victory.2025 November 11, Vivian Ren (pseudonym), “Farewell to Thyatira: Why I Left the Three-Self Church”, in Bitter Winter. From the entry Thyatira
• The good news is this draft bats deep and there's talent to snare late.2024 September 4, Jasper Chellappah, “AFL Draft state-of-play: Your club's biggest need in the deepest draft pool ever”, in ESPN. From the entry bat deep
• Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists.2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York. From the entry cadet grey
• The rapid tippy-tap of his neighbor’s snare drum sounded, and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” began.1997 October 29, Barbara J. Saffir, “Music students are upbeat”, in The Osceola Sentinel (an edition of The Orlando Sentinel), page 3. From the entry tippy-tap
• Lute Springer halted as abruptly as if he'd been snared by a catchrope.1973, Richard Brister, Cat Eyes, page 23. From the entry catchrope
• Peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence a snare.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 16. From the entry palingenesia
• After a flamboyant snare drum roll intro, the catchy plinky-plonky piano melody is joined by lolloping xylophone and flutes.2016 October 31, Neil McKim, “80 Years of TV theme tunes”, in BBC Music Magazine. From the entry lollop
• Only James Hopes could halt the pair's dominance, the all-rounder snaring both dangermen to finish with figures of 3-44.2009 January 30, AAP, “Proteas snatch No. 1 ranking”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2009. From the entry dangerman
• Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available.1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random…. From the entry gullible
• Gate netting and snaring are impossible where this is done.1927, Nicholas Everitt, Ernest Ivens Watson, Shots from a lawyer's gun, page 311. From the entry smeuse
• Make sure the snare throw-off is in the off (lowered) position and set the adjustment knob roughly midway between the tightest and loosest tension position.2017, Stewart Hoffman, The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide. From the entry throw-off
• The band came in with a basic rock arrangement, Cropper’s triplets stamped by Jackson’s metronomic snare and cymbal, and Jenkins added neat little twiddle flourishes.2015, Mark Ribowsky, Dreams to Remember. From the entry twiddle
• Every sound was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on.2011 July, David Mitchell, quoting Brian Eno, “A Conversation with Brian Eno”, in The Believer, McSweeney's, →ISSN. From the entry nerdery
• A root is hidden in the evil; what it is we eventually see from the growth it sends up (snares and temptations).2007, Dr. Aaron E. Lavender, Are you a Full Gospel Christian?. From the entry money-love
• Karl and the boys snared all sorts of birds to cook on the spit fire — buntings and starlings, wild geese, mallards, and pigeons.2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry spit fire
• There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC, Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 63. From the entry hose
• Adding to the onslaught in recent years are clever, premeditated e-mail 'edutorials' designed to snare innocent new moms and dads with modems.2001, Walter Roark, Keeping the Baby Alive Till Your Wife Gets Home, Clearing Skies Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry edutorial
• In Irish-English, “dulling for trout” is well known,—the fish as they lie still in a pool are snared with a noose of horsehair.1915, “Clare Island Survey: A Biological Survey of Clare Island”, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 21. From the entry dull
• All life had turned to rottenness and stench in them--love was a beastliness, joy was a snare, and God was an imprecation.1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XVII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906…. From the entry imprecation
• Leslie himself would set 'snickles' (snares) for rabbits near the ICI explosives plant, and believes that his snaring territory would have extended onto the eastern fringe of Manor Farm.2015, Steve Ely, Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, →ISBN. From the entry snickle
• Witchdoctor's moment is "The Ritual," where snares, brushes, and cymbals replicate drum'n'bass's skittering fascination, a Reznorian chill grips the air, and the MC chants bleak urban snapshots.1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 7, page 121. From the entry Reznorian
• The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA. From the entry music hall
• And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.1916, Texas Department of Agriculture, “Bulletin”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), numbers 47-57, page 150. From the entry scary
• A prowling coyote was suspected of the cygnicide and a trap was set for him, the carcass of the swan, filled with poison, being set in the snare.1901 June 28, “Coyote Kills Black Swan. Visits Scene of His Crime and Meets Deserved Death.”, in The Examiner, volume LXXII, number 179…. From the entry cygnicide
• A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.2023 April 14, Roslyn Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry transmute
• Near waterfront, a stone's throw from the slums It lifts, above its wreckage, three gold buoys Yet to its reefage tattoo'd flotsam comes Dropping their snared bags of exotic toys.1990, A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, Complete Poems - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 575. From the entry reefage

Meaning of snare

1. noun A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
2. noun A mental or psychological trap.
3. noun A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

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How do you use snare in a sentence?

Snare is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Jones snared the liner and then stepped on the bag to double up the runner.”

What is a short sentence with snare?

“A well-timed snare drum enlivened the music.”

What does snare mean?

Snare means a trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).