Sentence examples for was grasped at from inspiring English sources

The ILM was grasped at the temporal quadrant and peeled off with forceps in an area of 2-disc diameter around the macular hole.

The number of GRASP error trials (in which the object was grasped at the wrong part) and PLACE error trials (in which the object was transported to the incorrect slot) was balanced.

But I was grasping at nonexistent straws.

Mr Clinton said Mr Bush was grasping at straws.

One suggested that he was grasping at straws.

It is Laura, the woman who was grasping at Woolf's vivifying sentences in 1940s California.

Mr. Kagame said today that the Security Council was grasping at straws.

"I figured what he was doing," Roz Kaschik recalled, "was grasping at the only thing he really had left".

realPatriotsQuestion: It looked like Dr. Gupta was grasping at straws.

The Justice Department responded that Saucier was "grasping at highly imaginative and speculative straws," but the case got Trump's attention.

And in desperation this model was grasping at straws and tried to take everyone down with her -- including Anne V and myself!