He strained to pick up their conversation, but could make out only small snatches.

Was she always to forfeit even small snatches of what it was to live life because of a crime she did not commit?

He slips in when the studio is empty, giving himself small snatches of solitary dancing - a time, he says, for the mistake-making that is so vital a part of dance.

His terrible wounds were healing, and the small snatches of dialogue between him and his benefactor that Jordan caught were mundane, awkward, almost shy.

Elphaba could only get Nessarose's attention for small snatches of time.

Approximate matching is also used to identify pieces of music from small snatches and in spam filtering.

All about them was as before, bits and pieces of voices appearing and fading in small snatches, and the deep thrum of the furnace rising up from somewhere far below like distant thunder.

I did not know- save this, which began to linger in small quick snatches of inner sight, was from no dream of mine, and certainly not out of memory.

The wind had changed again, so he caught only small snatches of words, but the small figure seemed to be arguing with the soldier in front of him,.

He first offers it in the A minor key of the piece, then we hear it again in major, and we can also hear small snatches of the tune in a very slow, A flat section.