- present participle of grab.
grabbing
Example Sentences
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How long can you stand steadily without falling into a wall or grabbing onto the surface in front of you?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
You’re either stuck to a vinyl-clad seat or grabbing up for a handrail and trying to direct your face away from the armpits to your left and right.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
New Chinese AI models big and small -- from Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 to Alibaba's popular Qwen series -- are grabbing attention as challengers to Anthropic and OpenAI's lead.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
What’s striking is that she found climbing on the backs of near-strangers to be less weird than grabbing drinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
A whole passel of them dropped down from the branches and started grabbing apples.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
