Sentence examples for we were grasping from inspiring English sources
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.
We were grasping at straws sometimes.
That's the big nettle we're grasping.
"We're grasping at anything we think can help us get better," Collins said of Johnson.
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.
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.
"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".
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.
At this point we are grasping at straws.
