grabby

Example Sentences

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With “Sheriff Country,” the most popular series on Bruckheimer’s CBS roster, his team spins a grabby tale for 2026 while grinding out the network quota of a 20-episode season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

"The effect is congruent with the disappearance of instrumental intros in the grabby era of streaming, but it's also that of a person wanting to get something off their chest."

From BBC • May 5, 2023

Don’t muck it up by being grabby now.

From New York Times • May 5, 2022

No, Corporate America had just gotten mysteriously grabby.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

I have known my share of peculiar, difficult, nervous, grabby people, but I’ve never encountered any genuinely, consistently detestable human beings in all my life.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas