Sentence examples for reached for anything from inspiring English sources

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Additionally, though early reports stated that police thought Copp was reaching for a flashlight, it was later determined that he hadn't actually reached for anything, and was instead shot because he "opened the door aggressively".

Example: When reaching for a cup, they will seem to be moving in a series of steps like they have never reached for anything before.

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"They reach for anything they can get their hands on," says Mrs Alley.These days, she says, such scenes are more commonplace.

If you want to reach for anything positive out of Eight Belles, it was that it became a catalyst for some reform".

Ms. Grice, a housekeeper, said she had also told her son that when he was talking to adults, to keep his hands in place so it was clear that he was not reaching for anything.

With politicians on holiday, and acres of newsprint, screen-space and airtime to fill, desperate editors will reach for anything that might keep the reader's, viewer's or listener's attention.

Its appeals and concessions to fact and its airy handwaving rationalizations of them read like the weightless ad-libs of someone reaching for anything to win an argument on a subject about which he studied little.

Then it hesitated, and the warriors — all in their late teens or early twenties — moved in, their hands reaching for anything to grasp, the tail, the legs, those horns.

Detective Isnora has said that in the moments before he fired he thought Mr. Guzman was reaching in his waistband for a gun, but Mr. Guzman said Tuesday that he was not reaching for anything, including his cellphone, which was later found on the seat.

"I discovered most programs to be inadequate, as well as re-traumatizing and re-triggering for our population, as many of the programs just undervalue, underestimate and pigeonhole our community into very low expectation positions — you know, food service and manual labor without any sort of development for us to reach for anything else beyond that," Ross told TechCrunch.

I couldn't even move to get up to reach for anything, but I don't know what I would have grabbed anyway.

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