grabble

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

I nebber digs my taters up Wen dey's only right to grabble.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Often raccoons, foxes, and squirrels grabble them up.

From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by B. W. Jones

A few hollow groans from the wardrobe, he thought, would be more than sufficient, or, if that failed to wake her, he might grabble at the counterpane with palsy-twitching fingers. 

From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

“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

He went ahead and run all aroun' de ginhouse and dey let him in de gin-room and he grabbled in de cottonseed in a hole.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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

Other departments in California are grabbling with similar incidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2020

‘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

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

Chief among these nascent classes were the landowners of the cities, at first grabbling tradesmen and land speculators and finally rising to the crowning position of multimillionaires.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

Taylors out of work, who cut off the waistcoat pockets of their brethren, when cross-legged on their board, thereby grabbling their bit.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose