Example Sentences

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Maybe she was grasping for any kind of reassurance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Harpootlian said all this was grasping at whatever evidence might make Murdaugh look guilty and ignoring what didn’t fit the theory that he did it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023

“Nobody was grasping for an idea to go home with,” MacArthur told reporters.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2017

Still harder was grasping that within that room, there was an opening into yet another room, the human brain.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2015

But I kept walking, steeled only by the strength from Olka’s elbow, which I was grasping, less as the part demanded than as a crutch I needed.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman