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Example sentences for: grabs

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

At a specified moment, a computer at the company that handles our e-mail delivery then grabs the copy from our site and mails it to our subscriber list.
Roger Tamraz leads at the Washington Post --and grabs plenty of front-page space elsewhere.
The Cosby story also grabs the "talker" slot on the USAT top front, and runs above the NYT fold.
Other House leadership positions are up for grabs, too, and the candidates for these jobs have joined Livingston and his enemies in the ideology-pragmatism debate.
Otherwise, the operator turns the machine wheel to get the needle in the up position, lowers the presser foot, sews the beginning of the seam, backstitches to lock the seam, grabs the two plies of cloth near where the seam will end, and guides the cloth through the sewing machine.