grabbled

past tense of grabble

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grabbled
Verb
  • The incident occurred near 87th Avenue and Van Buren Street when a man grabbed a girl by the arm.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Riddle then grabbed Quirke by the collar and threw him down onto a table before walking off the set with a TMZ championship belt.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The prospect of shooting those tapes is a lot more chilling to me — or at least a lot more palpable — than the idea of my kids getting snatched by a neighbor on Halloween night, and Perry makes the most of it without completely unbalancing the rest of this otherwise fun-loving omnibus.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Both cars washed up the track; Elliott committed to the bottom, cleared them, and snatched the win - and with it, an automatic berth into the next Playoff round.
    Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The man reported to the Sheriff’s Office he had been scammed; the Sheriff’s Office then obtained a warrant and seized $14,120 from the ATM.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The Clermont County Dog Warden seized the animals in May.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The picture was captured from behind, taken outside and showed the couple holding hands in a rare display of royal PDA.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • All these years later, whiteface has once again captured the public imagination.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Women clutched children in their arms, weeping uncontrollably.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As Brown crashed hard onto the orange turf of the end zone, his helmet popped off, spinning several yards while Brown continued rolling with the ball clutched in his arms.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Grabbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grabbled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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