grabble
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You could ache for the cozy city of the past in “The Royal Tenenbaums” or grabble with the schism of everything suddenly feeling different in “Mulholland Drive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s that we want—and need—the ability to grabble with nuance and ambiguity that are inherent when our bodies and minds fail.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
For “the wind bloweth where it listeth,” as Christ saith; we must not grabble nor search after the same.
From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Captain Henry Bell
V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
"Who gets me, I think, will have to swoop down in an aeroplane, and grabble me all up and fly away with me!"
From Patty's Suitors by Carolyn Wells
“Rebel Yell” starts up from the sound system and, as if on cue, my son lets out a grabbled “a-woooh!”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2015
Suddenly, the Fleshlumpeater shot out two enormous hands and grabbled the BFG around the waist.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Ed King and Jim Maxwell each had a sack of sweet potatoes, grabbled in a field a mile and a half away.
From A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by James Robert Maxwell
Being blind made touch even more of an instrument of knowing something although all grabbled around in darkness.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
With white claws of foam the sea grabbled at the shore.
From A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
Other departments in California are grabbling with similar incidents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
And then, as if a signal has gone off that only the childrens can hear, all of their hands are reaching and grabbling and snatching.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
‘We will swear to do what he wants, yes, yess,’ said Gollum, still twisting and grabbling at his ankle.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The speaker slowly rose, grabbling the face of the rock.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
I heard Collins grabbling for it, somewhere in the dark of the tunnel.
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by George W. Gage
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