Sentence examples for we're grasping from inspiring English sources
That's the big nettle we're grasping.
"We're grasping at anything we think can help us get better," Collins said of Johnson.
It's a real testament to the fact that we're grasping desperately for non-Hillary Clinton Democratic presidential candidates when Washington starts getting a little buzzy about Jim Webb running for president.
"When a county arrest warrant goes out for someone who has done a serious crime," he explained, "and that person just drops off the face of the earth and we're grasping at straws, he goes on the list".
The acres of page and screen space Dolezal's case has so far occupied, and the fact that we're grasping at a lame 1980s comedy for comparison, underline the difficulty we've had getting a handle on this.
We're hoping to complete it in about 75 days but we're grasping at straws when talking time on an expedition like this - there are just too many variables.
We could best our point total from the last season, I suppose, though that could feel like we were grasping at straws.
"In the past, with chemotherapy, we were grasping at things," said Dr. Paul Chapman, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who led the trial.
Here we are, grasping for the full loutishness and not being able quite to get it in the last struggle to break away from the banality of everyday life.
At this point we are grasping at straws.
