grabby
Example Sentences
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With “Sheriff Country,” the most popular series on Bruckheimer’s CBS roster, his team spins a grabby tale for 2026 while grinding out the network quota of a 20-episode season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
He and his team have supercharged his ability to connect too, whether that's with grabby videos on social media or chats on his own podcast.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
The hotel’s dilapidation — to say nothing of its grubby, grabby, mostly male clientele — is a far cry from the yacht parties the women were recently enjoying in Sydney.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2023
What Blanchard’s music forgoes in terms of a catchy tune or grabby hook, it makes up for in rich, indulgent, evocative textures and exquisite management of tension and release.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023
I have known my share of peculiar, difficult, nervous, grabby people, but I’ve never encountered any genuinely, consistently detestable human beings in all my life.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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