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

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

A few hollow groans from the wardrobe, he thought, would be more than sufficient, or, if that failed to wake her, he might grabble at the counterpane with palsy-twitching fingers. 

From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Wilde, Oscar

Often raccoons, foxes, and squirrels grabble them up.

From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by Jones, B. W.