Sentence examples for grab off from inspiring English sources

It's a book that normally I wouldn't immediately grab off a shelf but it is deeply moving.

It looks like the coat you grab off the rack to walk the dog, not the coat around which you base your new season look.

Three strong pithecan homeys are dispatched to find and grab off a fresh ember or burning branch from their nearest heat-keeping neighbors, hundreds or perhaps thousands of miles away, who will mash them with a boulder or have them for lunch if they fail.

This probably helps explain why in America, foods that originated in the Mediterranean region have degenerated into something almost unrecognizable: the greasy gyro that you grab off a sidewalk cart; the cheese and pepperoni pizza you pick up for dinner on your way home from work; the frozen lasagna you microwave for the kids as you head for a P.T.A. meeting.

But they aren't just something you can grab off a shelf at Costco or Target.

Google is not the only game in town for Android, but it is the most attractive and the best solution you can grab off the shelf.

They watched while a sculptor grabbed off three takes, and a lady bought an oxen yoke.

Wondering if the image you grabbed off the Internet is available for your use in your paper/presentation/website?

So he listened to low-quality audio grabbed off the net on low-quality speakers.

The moment I walked in the door, I grabbed off the shelf a copy of Cormac McCarthy's 1985 masterpiece, "Blood Meridian".

On the CBS rundown sheet that we grabbed off a stack backstage, it was listed about a third of the way down: 25.