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Example sentences for: grabbing

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The Parisian Trash Bag Dance involves grabbing one of the giant blue trash bags they sell at the local market and swishing it back and forth over my head alluringly, while swaying my hips, like Salomé charming Herod.
By the late '60s, Kusama had turned from these ambiguous engagements with the male gaze to more attention grabbing performances.
This handbook was conceived as a linguistic guide which would somehow prevent its users from grabbing hold of a German→French dictionary the moment their personal vocabulary ran out.
The Dardennes are peerless at staging and shooting rituals, such as Rosetta's day selling waffles and beer from a truck: taking an order, plucking a waffle from the iron, grabbing a beer from the shelf, counting money, making change, saying thank you, taking another order … It's easy to dismiss films that make grandiose statements about how people ought to live but never convincingly portray how they do.
Bin Ladin was described as grabbing his beard and saying emotionally, "By Allah, by God, the Americans will still be amazed.