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

It’s a paradox, in a way, because she’s really only graspable in the way in the movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

A strand of me seemed to shake itself loose and offer itself as distinct, as graspable.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

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