grasp
verb (used with object)
to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
graspable
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a word derived from
grasp.
Example Sentences
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Unlike traditional handles that stick out on the door surface and can always be grasped by hand, the retractable handle sinks into the door and isn’t graspable in its default position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
A robustly growing economy, stable economic policy, falling interest rates, and a graspable positioning in the current global trade tumult as an oasis of tariff stability, are decent selling points in an uncertain world.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
It’s a paradox, in a way, because she’s really only graspable in the way in the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
In these stories, the allegories are less graspable than in “Alvin,” and the degree to which these worlds resemble an alternate or heightened version of our reality is unclear.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
She had the air of snatching at that as something concrete, graspable.
From The Lovely Lady by Gordon Grant
