grabble

Example Sentences

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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

He jump up, he did, en 'gun ter grabble in de quog-mire des ez hard ez he kin.

From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo

Now, they, I admid, were fine, noble, sensible fellows; they had indelligence enough to regognize the diffiguldies of the siduation, and do grabble with them in a sensible way.

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon

Then we grabble in de pot for more.

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

What a foolish fellow you are, indeed, trying to grabble cherries out of the ground, as you do potatoes!

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice