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Example sentences for: grabbing

How can you use “grabbing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For our simian ancestors in the trees, falling from branch to branch was a normal mode of locomotion, but you had better have a prehensile paw for grabbing the crucial limb at the last moment.
Bin Ladin was described as grabbing his beard and saying emotionally, "By Allah, by God, the Americans will still be amazed.
Yes, I finished the marathon, but I did it by putting on roller skates and grabbing the suspenders of those who knew what they were doing.
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.
It makes me wonder what people would be saying if women's baseball became popular, and the commentariat was forced to watch women chewing tobacco and grabbing their crotches.