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
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
Crews are using the largest hydraulic grabber in the country to help in that effort, he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024
And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that’s what he would do.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
