Sentence examples for we are grasping from inspiring English sources
Are we so desperate for financial gain that we are grasping at insensitive and inaccurate content at the expense of others?
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.
In his anguished, push-pull relationship with the brother, Mr. Cruise in a sense "acts out" the trauma of the family, the anger, the resentment, the inability to love; and, as he probes, he provides the film's sense of illumination, making us feel as if we are grasping the essential mystery of Raymond and their childhood together.
We put them on our business cards (doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief), we use them for Web sites and Twitter handles (@Dr.WhoOnline) and we let them animate real or made-up epitaphs ("Here lies Dr. Keene, the good Bishop of Chester,/Who ate up a fat goose, but could not digest her").. Some among us use generic nouns when we are grasping for words to say who we are (female, doctor, athlete).
At this point we are grasping at straws.
"We are grasping for salvation," he told reporters as his company struggles to return to profit.
As soon as we enter we are grasped at roughly by a girl in white lingerie with hard eyes who wants to know – with alarming predictability – whether or not one of us wants a private dance.
That's the big nettle we're grasping.
"We're grasping at anything we think can help us get better," Collins said of Johnson.
We could best our point total from the last season, I suppose, though that could feel like we were grasping at straws.
