Example Sentences

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Most of the 20 candidates onstage — 10 each night — will be grasping for ways to stand out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2019

Basically, people will be grasping at straws, making excuses, ducking and weaving and pretending, as they always do in tight spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Authors have always been in the wrong, and they always will be: grasping, unscrupulous, mercenary creatures that they are!

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold