grabble
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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
And every minute their fingers grabble in the purses of nobles.
From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Caradoc Evans
For “the wind bloweth where it listeth,” as Christ saith; we must not grabble nor search after the same.
From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Captain Henry Bell
Do you think you have a right to grabble my Prior Riparian Rights?
From The Discards by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
“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
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
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
With white claws of foam the sea grabbled at the shore.
From A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
Other departments in California are grabbling with similar incidents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
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
‘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
The speaker slowly rose, grabbling the face of the rock.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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
