Sentence examples for a grasp at from inspiring English sources

He added, "I was amazed at how well they seem to have a grasp at what's going on".

Once the naughty aura of the forbidden fruit is removed, all that remains is a grasp at unearned sophistication.

His appearance in the remarkable documentary Fog of War was a grasp at redemption from a man somewhat haunted by his past actions.

"Hunger Games" isn't the only pop-cultural artifact that primes us to view fashion as an expression of some inner rot, as vanity, a grasp at wealth, the shallow aspirations of a classist society.

If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch (Indigo £8.99) is another tale of slow recovery from early abuse, narrated by Carey, who takes care of her younger sister while living rough with their drug-addicted mother in a corner of a Tennessee national park she calls "Hundred Acre Wood" in a grasp at conventional childhood.

It's a grasp at remembering the person alive.

For a potentially life-saving cancer drug, a patient might grasp at even much slimmer odds.

Affected couples, often desperate for a solution, sometimes grasp at unproven or useless remedies.

What is clear is that a nation will grasp at any ray of sunshine in the darkness.

Here is the vision of an Olympics loser made to grasp at a last chance for glory.

Easy for even a casual visitor to grasp, at least superficially, Afghanistan is a difficult place for a serious writer.