Example Sentences

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Food that holds you in place for a moment when the world feels loud, fast or oddly ungraspable.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

The result is a beguiling, sidewinding meditation on “the possibility of dissolution of identity itself, of release, with all of its cosmic, ungraspable meanings.”

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2021

This air of being lost in a world of ungraspable dimensions is crucial to the experience of the Passion as a whole.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

His vision of the country is a communion of ragged, defiant and giving souls who find shared meaning in sacrifice and restless glimmers of ungraspable dreams.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2016

We mustn’t swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson