Sentence examples for makes a grab from inspiring English sources

Sometimes bitterness makes a grab for Leah".

11.07pm BST Grant Shapps makes a grab for the centre ground.

But what is most reminiscent here of "Ulysses," and of "NW," is that Chabon makes a grab for the entire world in a single, bighearted book.

Early in the movie, Marty and his only friend, a German shepherd named Opal, who's like his shadow, sneak into Ray's apartment, and Marty makes a grab for Abby.

Ed Miliband has faced a backlash from Labour Eurosceptics after effectively ruling out a referendum unless Brussels makes a grab for fresh powers, something he made clear was "unlikely" before 2020.

And when Ranyevskaya, in a teasing mood, asks a hapless young man if he has "hair down there" (the English adaptation is by Andrew Upton), she makes a grab for his crotch.

But she's making a grab for it".

Cohen, before him, made a grab for Sotheby's too, as have various other financial arrivistes.

Labour and the Tories are making a grab for Lib Dem votes.

"Perhaps it's meat she wants, or" – making a grab for a half-plucked chicken – "a nice big cock".

These include terrorism, a nuclear North Korea and, one day perhaps, China making a grab for Japan's near-neighbour, Taiwan.