adjective
Other Word Forms
- graspingly adverb
- graspingness noun
- overgrasping adjective
- ungrasping adjective
Etymology
Origin of grasping
Example Sentences
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"Much of humanoid robotics today is focused on leg and hand motion, for activities like walking and grasping," Lipson said.
From Science Daily
In this war lawyers invariably are depicted as soulless and grasping ambulance-chasers unconcerned about their clients’ welfare, and businesses as, well, soulless, grasping and unconcerned about their customers.
From Los Angeles Times
Researchers emphasized that understanding mosquito feeding behavior is essential for grasping how diseases circulate through ecosystems and human populations.
From Science Daily
“This woman, she is in a swirling mist. She is fading in and out, hovering between life and death. I see her grasping, begging—she doesn’t want to leave us. Wait!”
From Literature
They held one and other and looked in their eyes, grasping for words.
From Barron's
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