grabber
Example Sentences
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He had travelled to Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, and March in Cambridgeshire, and as he drove through Willingham the crane's unsecured grabber moved and was hanging over the side of his trailer.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
For the next two hours, they plucked Q-tips and chicken bones off the ground with grabber tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
The headliner grabber was Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of his exchange, FTX, but scores of other crypto companies went belly up.
From Slate ● May 23, 2025
The grabber arm began to turn like a corkscrew.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
