grabber

Example Sentences

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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 headline grabber, though, is the production of plutonium cores.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

‘Oh, my friend, I never kid about giant grabber arms!’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan