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Example sentences for: grabbing

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(Europe is already grabbing MLS's best: Goalkeeper Brad Friedel went to Liverpool last season, and more top MLS players may follow him.)
By the late '60s, Kusama had turned from these ambiguous engagements with the male gaze to more attention grabbing performances.
I was stopped every step, women grabbing my arm, men pulling me aside to say: 'Can this be true?
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.
"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 ...