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How to use grab in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Grab means to grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. Example: “I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.”

Examples of grab by meaning

verbTo grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

  • I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.
  • I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

verbTo make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

  • The suspect suddenly broke free and grabbed at the policeman's gun.
  • Stop grabbing or I won't give you any cookies.

verbTo grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.

  • How does that idea grab you?

verbTo quickly collect, retrieve, or take.

  • "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.1987, James Grady, Just a Shot Away, Bantam, page 117
  • I'll just go grab my purse."1999, Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., page 105
  • "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."2009, Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps,, Tate Publishing, page 216

verbTo consume something quickly.

  • We'll just grab a sandwich and then we'll be on our way.
  • Is there time to grab a coffee?

nounA sudden snatch at something.

  • The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.1931 April, Harold M. Sherman, “The Baseball Clown”, in Boys' Life, volume 21, number 4, Boy Scouts of America, page 47
  • He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.2003, J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, page 66

nounA mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

  • Almost all modern cranes are electrically operated and a quick-acting type of 30 cwt. capacity is suitable for general cargo, but not powerful enough to operate grabs for discharge of bulk cargoes.1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11

nounA sound bite.

  • The bulletin might contain only a few voice wraps but many grabs, leaving the focus firmly on the newsreader.2008, Melissa Agnew, Here is the (Australian) News

More sentences with grab

  • The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.From the entry shoot
  • The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting.From the entry shoot
  • He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.From the entry thrust
  • I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.From the entry cook
  • The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool.From the entry spanner
  • The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.From the entry stupid
  • She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but she missed.From the entry miss
  • Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.From the entry dungarees
  • Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers.From the entry einstein
  • The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders.From the entry boarder
  • Winners can choose a gift from the grab bags on the table.From the entry grab bag
  • With that system, it's a grab bag which files we can find at any moment.From the entry grab bag
  • Grab the Henry and give it a once over, would you?From the entry henry
  • I'll grab a sandwich to keep the wolf from the door until dinner time.From the entry keep the wolf from the door
  • I blew out my shoulder when I grabbed a heavy box in a careless way.From the entry blow out
  • My shoulder blew out when I grabbed a heavy box in a careless way.From the entry blow out
  • So after all that work, I traipsed down to the shop to grab something to eat.From the entry traipse
  • A flutter left him light-headed until he steadied himself by grabbing the railing.From the entry flutter
  • I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.From the entry lunge
  • He grabbed his unruly child by the scruff of the neck, and took him home.From the entry scruff
  • Alice: "I think we should stop coding and go grab a couple of pints."From the entry now you're talking
  • The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.From the entry sacking
  • I laid him out on the sidewalk after he tried to grab me.From the entry lay out
  • Feeling somebody grab at his wallet in the darkness, he hit out at the assailant.From the entry hit out
  • Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!From the entry ick
  • Download websites should be designed so that those who wish to can just grab and go.From the entry grab and go

Meaning of grab

  1. verb To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  2. verb To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  3. verb To restrain someone; to arrest.

Full definition of grab

Questions about grab in a sentence

How do you use grab in a sentence?
Grab is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.”
What is a short sentence with grab?
“How does that idea grab you?”
What does grab mean?
Grab means to grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grab (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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