Sentence examples for is grabbed on from inspiring English sources

There is the weekday event that is grabbed on the run.

We have less time to read; information is grabbed on the hoof and the visual image is powerful.

What's more chilling than the potential threats to civil liberties posed by the emergency powers he is grabbing on behalf of the president are the immediate practical threats these quick-fix legal schemes pose to the war effort.

[laughs] So all you can do is grab on to it and make it a positive because they don't care what you have to say, and they can't, because they have this larger concern.

A Thai woman living in Macau was grabbed on her way to a beauty salon.

Thus, most workers keep a wardrobe handy, especially sweaters to be grabbed on chilly mornings.

"I worry about the degree to which ­reconciliation has been grabbed on and represented as bribery," he told the Guardian.

Activists reached in the Aleppo area said the Lebanese were grabbed on suspicion that they were Hezbollah "shabiha," or thugs, working for the Syrian government.

"It was grabbed on to because this is a place where there's nothing, so you can easily project your fantasies on to it.

The man was grabbed on the eastern promenade of the bridge after passers-by noticed him pacing and growing increasingly despondent.

Welsh reported that two men were grabbed on Main Street and taken into an alley, where they were robbed and forced to exchange their civilian clothes for the soldiers' filthy uniforms.