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

‘Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy! Leo turned to Jason and Piper. ‘You guys remember the giant Archimedes grabber arm I told you I was building?’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan