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

"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

Then we jump up and go to him and all of us grabble dirt 'way and sho' 'nough it was a pot lid and it was on a pot.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

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

“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

"Oh! you see, I grabbled that in the scuffle, and slipped it into my pocket."

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers

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

Jim stopp'd an' grabbled up a clot, An' zent en at en lik' a shot; An' down went Daw an' cage avore The clot, up thump ageän the door.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

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

The furies of rage and rancour were grabbling at her heart, even as the leopard had scrabbled on her face.

From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

We jumped over the fence, and commenced grabbling for the sweet potatoes.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins