Example Sentences

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I remember seeing them slowly turning their wrist this way and that, grasping and ungrasping their fingers.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2014

Rose had a singularly sweet, ungrasping disposition, and an almost childlike trait of accepting that which was offered her as the one and only thing which she deserved.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Each of the two was perfectly good and ungrasping, but each accused themselves and each other unjustly because of the possibilities of wrong feeling which they realized.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins