Capacity to stick

Usage examples of grab.

I reached around and grabbed the belt and hissed as fabric abraided my skin.

Granny Aching had nodded to the men, who grabbed the sheep and dragged it back into the barn.

She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.

As I state in my affidavit, he became very agitated, grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground, kicked me several times.

Too much to hope that an afrit would leap out to grab my current master now.

Morris pulled out a line and attached it to the lug, then grabbed Bart and swam with him to a similar lug ten yards aft of the escape-trunk hatch and set flush into the deck.

As an afterthought, he grabbed his ball cap and threw it on his head, taking the stairs two at a time.

Keir grabbed the aiglets and held them tight until they fleshed out into hands once again.

Jack grabbed Akela around his chest and started to roll over with him but Akela escaped and pushed him over.

So he calls up Ernie and me, right here in this hide-out, and says to check on Renz and Alker and grab anybody that tries to follow them.

When he grabbed for it, she flung it across the room, lassoing the arm of an aluminite chair.

Impatiently, Brett reached down and grabbed Angelique none too gently by the elbow.

Reaching home after the flight from New Orleans, Sarchi grabbed her neuro anatomy text and read about the ansa lenticularis, the fiber bundle Latham was going to sever to treat Drew.

Lady Ansa grabbed one that had rolled across the room and tossed it to Gina, who grinned her thanks.

Remembering the alarm and what it signaled, she leaned through the car window, grabbed her black leather Chanel purse off the car seat, pulled an antacid bottle from its depths, and popped two of the tablets into her mouth.