grabble

Example Sentences

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It’s that we want—and need—the ability to grabble with nuance and ambiguity that are inherent when our bodies and minds fail.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018

"Who gets me, I think, will have to swoop down in an aeroplane, and grabble me all up and fly away with me!"

From Patty's Suitors by Wells, Carolyn

Do you think you have a right to grabble my Prior Riparian Rights?

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

What a foolish fellow you are, indeed, trying to grabble cherries out of the ground, as you do potatoes!

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

Then we grabble in de pot for more.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration