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graspings

n. (plural of grasping English)

Usage examples of "graspings".

Someone so gentle that he made the clumsy graspings of men, no matter how well-intentioned, seem hurtful things.

It had seemed then, and still seemed now, a greater betrayal than any trivial sweaty graspings under the sheets could ever be.

She responded slowly at first, then faster with bewildered movements of her own body and little graspings at his arms and shoulders.

Was it important for her, perhaps, in a war with men, perhaps in her graspings for power, I wondered, to maintain that she, in her hatred, ambition, envy and narrowness, stood for an entire sex?