snaffle

How To Use snaffle In A Sentence

• Money lent to dictators and snaffled away into offshore accounts gets racked on to the public debt to be paid by future generations. Debt crisis: A default in Europe could benefit poor countries | Jonathan Glennie
• He played at a delivery he might have left and was snaffled at second slip. The Sun
• Its body may be snaffled by a predator.
• But what about Jeremy Paxman's book, Friends in High Places, that showed the best jobs are snaffled by those from public schools and elite universities?
• All bridoon bits shown above are permitted either as a snaffle or as part of a double bridle.
• Next to him was a picture of the young filly that had snaffled his heart. Times, Sunday Times
• These horsemen rode with short stirrups, in snaffle bridles with a loose rein, in an uncollected, free forward manner that was the exact opposite of the extreme collection of the Continental riding school, with its emphasis on curb bits.
• Thieves snaffled all the goods from the burnt warehouse.
• The Indians ride bareback on paints (white horses with dark colored markings) and duns (grayish brown horses) with snaffle bridles.
• There was no doubt as to why, of course -- a soldier had "snaffled" it. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900