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

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

Kyogo, with eight goals, has been the headline grabber on many of these days, but McGregor has been the man who has tied it all together.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

It’s a grabber of a premise, a kind of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” as reimagined by Charlie Kaufman.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

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

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan