Example Sentences

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They were grasping at straws trying to keep me in the show, and it was lovely.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

At the time, the nonprofit’s executives were grasping for resources to cover the expense of revitalizing and producing new episodes of the show beyond fees from longtime public broadcaster PBS.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

“We were grasping at straws looking for what we could do to get the economy going,” Peck recalls.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2021

It is logical that as we were grasping that the virus could travel through the air, we were trying to grasp to what extent it could travel through the air.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020

Their hands were clenched into fists or open like claws, as if they were grasping at something, and their faces were expressionless masks, their eyes glazed with frost, staring at nothing.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston