Sentence examples for grab up from inspiring English sources

"grab up" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe quickly and hastily taking or seizing something. Example: The children were told to grab up their toys and put them away before dinner.

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The Restore Act windfall represents a critical chance to grab up and safeguard some of the remaining marshes and coastal wetlands.

The performance continued in the lobby, where getting dessert meant whacking open a gigantic Andy Warhol piñata to grab up Little Debbie snack cakes.

When Mr. Hussein's government collapsed in April, many Iraqis like Mr. Diwan ran to the ministries and intelligence service offices to grab up secret files containing the names of informers and the names of the dead.

The only catch is that Proctorr is in the middle of a bitter divorce, and his estranged wife would grab up half his check, too, leaving him with nothing.

This was thrilling news indeed as the clear inference is that there are other prehistoric creatures on the grand prix circuit who use their weirdly foreshortened front legs for swatting away pterodactyls and making futile attempts to grab up lithe and bronzed young cave-chicks clad in sloth fur bikinis.

Some cowboy may appreciate them indeed, all who really live in the country do but they do not receive the protection of any community; anybody may grab up all that exist; but as an article of commerce, they command the attention of the civilized world.

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"People grabbed up our territory, chopped it up into bits.

"Men my age are grabbed up immediately by friends," she said.

The popular colors were grabbed up quickly, while the less popular colors remained on the shelves for months.

"I hate that people are grabbing up all this expensive, toxic and specialized drug".

He taught himself, mostly, to draw and paint, grabbing up whatever instruction he could get.

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