How to Use grasp for in a Sentence

grasp for

phrasal verb

• And people have been grasping for the right term to describe that for a long time.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• On the one hand, the words grasp for the precision required to keep up with the swiftly tilting present.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
• The agency is grasping for ways to improve the standard of living.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Many have bounced from one lodging to another, grasping for a place to stay put.
  — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, theater leaders are grasping for signs of hope, or at least faith.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Forgetfulness and even grasping for words are a common part of aging.
  — Raya Rockwood, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
• In Trump, Jack, 61, saw a fighter who spoke plainly about what was wrong with America without grasping for excuses in the fine print.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• In 1900, this type of crude grasp for the reader’s attention was called yellow journalism, what might be called clickbait today.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The cost of its oil has broken through a price cap imposed by the West, leaving the Biden administration grasping for strategies to stop sanctions evasion.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• The new charge left historians grasping for precedents.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• But a proliferation of festivals in the region has turned BBR from the only game in town to one of many events grasping for an ever-fractured market.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2024
• The key to success wasn’t slowly working your way up, grasping for small opportunities.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Luke is grasping for help on what defines him now because work has only ever defined him and achieving has only ever defined him.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• Officials at the city, state and federal level continue to grasp for solutions.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
• Joke videos show people barreling into crowded stores to get their hands on the phone with the desperation of someone grasping for water after wandering in a desert.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• At this point, your baby is going to be more interested in toys and pictures, constantly grasping for things that stimulate their vision.
  — Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
• Victims grasp for answers In late June, more than 10 weeks after surviving the shooting by hiding in the bathroom, Schwartz met with detectives investigating the killings.
  — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Els says various government agencies and private hostage negotiators got in touch, grasping for more clues about her husband's whereabouts -- but to no avail.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• The war has left Russia grasping for certainties in an exceedingly uncertain world.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• Their bereaved parents are left grasping for an explanation.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Leaders throughout the Middle East are grasping for responses that channel the public’s outrage while guarding their own interests.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• That juxtaposition of triumph and death, all too familiar in a sport grasping for meaningful safety reforms, lingered for many who watched.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• By focusing on a law-and-order message while defending the right to free speech, Biden is grasping for a middle ground on an intensely divisive issue in the middle of his reelection campaign.
  — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Instead, the war has left Russia grasping for certainties in an exceedingly uncertain world.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• State governments today grasp for dollars from the federal government more than for independence from it.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
• The city had trudged through a tough budget year, pleaded with federal workers to come back to its empty office buildings and grasped for new ways to revitalize downtown as the commercial real estate market floundered.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• But a recent spate of orca attacks on a different target—sailboats—has scientists grasping for explanations.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
• Gemba, however, did not say who pulled the trigger, leaving the children’s grandmother, Diane Ellis grasping for information.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• Crows Crows have continually exhibited a grasp for numbers and signs of other signs of intelligence researchers once believed were only attainable by humans.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 July 2024
• But really, though, this is Krieps’ show, another elegantly virtuosic, intelligent turn that, in this case, imbues sickness with dignity so that every strained grasp for breath feels like a victory for autonomy.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024