graspable

Example Sentences

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Unlike traditional handles that stick out on the door surface and can always be grasped by hand, the retractable handle sinks into the door and isn’t graspable in its default position.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

A robustly growing economy, stable economic policy, falling interest rates, and a graspable positioning in the current global trade tumult as an oasis of tariff stability, are decent selling points in an uncertain world.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

But of course, as you grow older, the world — society — tries to teach you something else and make you feel like those things aren’t as graspable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

In these stories, the allegories are less graspable than in “Alvin,” and the degree to which these worlds resemble an alternate or heightened version of our reality is unclear.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2021

Yet this, too, turned into another phase of his inheritance—his need was not material, concrete, it had no worldly, graspable implications, and his general contempt was not less but greater.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph