Sentence examples for grabbing from inspiring English sources

Earlier on Thursday, Eddie Obeid told ABC radio there was only a 1% chance he would be prosecuted over his conduct, and that the "Hollywood-style" Icac report was "all about grabbing media headlines".

We've wondered whether Sam Pepper, a YouTube star who likes to be filmed grabbing women's bodies, is simply a misunderstood joker.

Sadly, because he has been one of the game's outstanding talents, but fittingly too, he ended his last World Cup final with a yellow card for one last argument, this on behalf of Dezotti whose dismissal for grabbing Kohler round the neck three minutes from the end and wrestling him to the ground was a bit hard.

"Schedule a meeting with your boss and find a suitably private space for this, rather than grabbing a seemingly discreet moment by the coffee machine," advises Hernan Daguerre, career expert at recruitment site Monster.co.uk.

He is grabbing his dick and smiling for the cameras.

"She was grabbing lunch and ate for 45 minutes in the restaurant," manager Charles Wright told the Guardian, adding that few customers even noticed the former secretary of state was eating a chicken bowl with "a friend of hers" – apparently Abedin.

He didn't see the northern powerhouse as a vote-grabbing gimmick – though the fact he was given a seat in the House of Lords on Thursday, when Osborne appointed him commercial secretary to the Treasury, suggests that while he's a Manchester United supporter, he's blue at the ballot box.

"Without the answer to these questions this announcement is empty headline-grabbing and shows that, even after polling day, politicians are still avoiding the difficult questions and continuing to play games with the NHS".

His flair for attention-grabbing first surfaced at the Gate in London, an unprepossessing fringe theatre which Daldry turned into the capital's premier works-in-translation venue.

Seen against this grim and urgent backdrop, Saturday's EU leaders' summit in Brussels was not headline-grabbing stuff.

Both Stefanoni and one of the report's co-authors – Carla Vecchiotti – are influential figures in a restricted circle of DNA experts in Italy and are no strangers to headline-grabbing cases.