Sentence examples for for a grab from inspiring English sources

Indeed, he refused last week to spend a minuscule $5 billion appropriated by Congress for a grab bag of "emergency" items, angering lawmakers from both parties.

The Keepsake mini tin ($4.95 with33 cookies) would be good for a grab bag; a tin of a dozen cookies ($22.95) is a classic, all-purpose gift.

Reyes was traded to the Blue Jays a few weeks ago and a deal that would send Dickey to Toronto for a grab bag of prospects is pending the negotiating of a contract extension for Dickey.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP - IN the highly competitive world of thrill-ride engineering, records last little longer than the time it takes for a grab bag of shriekers to plummet to the earth.

But by August of last year Mr. Bush was beginning to test out the phrase in informal presentations, using it as he did last night to describe a goal he hoped to achieve, and as a unifying theme for a grab bag of policies including private accounts for people to save for retirement, health care and education.

For a grab bag of dentists and insurance salesmen on three-year leases, 9% is more like it.

Additional forces driving the amoeboid movement involve the "eupodium," which extends into a potential substrate for a grab-like traction, similar to a tank tread.

Tomorrow night the ubiquitous diva Renée Fleming takes the stage for a grab-bag program of songs and arias by Mozart, Handel, Bizet, Massenet and others, conducted by Patrick Summers.

Mr. Gartenfeld and Ms. Marshall, both of whom have day jobs in the art world (he's the online editor at Interview and Art in America; she's the assistant curator at the Swiss Institute), are part of a new wave of gallerists who for a grab-bag of reasons — economic, philosophical and purely pragmatic — are turning their homes into art galleries.

The timing is right for a newcomer to make a grab for the brass ring.

I think it was a grab for power for her".