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Example sentences for: grabbing

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Or fame, even, really--remember how grossed out he gets (as does the reader) when Gilderoy Lockhart gives him tips for grabbing the spotlight?
Hanson grabbing a chunk of their own vote," SCMP said.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
Most major dictionary publishers put out Concise, Compact, Pocket, Vest Pocket, and other editions, grabbing for markets that are price-more than content-oriented.
You can experience America’s favorite summer pastime by grabbing a hot dog and a beer and rooting for the Dodgers baseball team at Dodger Stadium, just north of Downtown in Chavez Ravine.