Sentence examples for grabbed by it from inspiring English sources

He forms a first impression of a poem almost at once, and if he isn't grabbed by it he'll flip ahead and read something else.

Since then, so many people have been grabbed by it.

So much power has been grabbed by Whitehall that it is much easier than elsewhere to identify bureaucracy to hack at.

They'd grabbed it by its tail and yanked it onto the asphalt, pinned its head with a snake stick — a metal pole with a retractable noose at its tip — and wrestled it into an ice chest, for later dissection.

I slipped the barbie's popper from its huge mouth, then grabbed it by its tail and slipped my other hand under its prodigious belly to hold up for an imaginary photo.

That may protect their assets from being grabbed by the Kremlin; but it does not shield them from their wives.

The corner goes deep and is headed down and grabbed by Gspurning and that, it turns out, is that.

I reached over to the potato plant, grabbed it by its green foliage, and pulled.

As it was never a British colony, Goa has a distinct culture – it was grabbed by the Portuguese in the early days of European colonisation (India only wrestled it off them by waging a two-day war in 1961).

Mulder is grabbed by the other creature, though it releases him after Scully manages to wound it with her firearm.

Of the recent news that a religious foundation had renewed the fatwa, he wrote by e-mail: "I'm not inclined to magnify this ugly bit of headline grabbing by paying it much attention".