He'd tried everything he could think of short of breaking his cover to suborn them, in their brief snatches of conversation.

Recovered names connect to faces, and even brief snatches of isolated events.

A doctor had to learn to sleep anywhere, in whatever brief snatches of time were allowed.

Some of the versions contain brief snatches of music.

She and Ky had talked about the family disaster only in brief snatches, information-only.

These brief snatches of music rarely amount to a satisfying listen, and their commencement is a prompt for us to interrupt them.

For brief snatches of time the noise resolved into these snakings across the screen.

Outside the door, he had caught brief snatches of Harry's conversation.

The sights he had seen there, with brief snatches of food and sleep by intervals, shall remain untold.

And at sundown he took his rest in the briefest snatches.