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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:

But if nothing this week grabs you, take heart: The lockout is over, and NBA action should be coming your way soon.
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.
But what really grabs your attention is the chatter of Chinese voices, the crowds, the color, the smells of five-spice and dried shrimp — it’s a little corner of Hong Kong right in the middle of California.
And it transcends color and gender: The player who grabs the ball, dodging a spry Eiffel Tower, is white and female.
The story also sits atop the Wall Street Journal 's front-page news index box and is fronted below the fold by the Washington Post , whose top non-local story is the paper's new polling on the New Hampshire primaries showing that both the Democratic and Republican races are "up for grabs."