12 example sentences using grasping.
Grasping used in a sentence
Grasping in a sentence as a noun
Newcomers are not grasping how it fits into the bigger picture.
I am grasping at straws here but since it's Florida is it possible she is "the wrong color" ?
I am grasping at straws here but since it's Florida is it possible she is the wrong color?
"You're not grasping the situation or what actions have been taken in this example, and with the crisis and bailouts in the US.
His logistical issues seem like he's grasping for anything he can to discredit the idea.
However when I started these courses, I was capable of grasping these concepts in a deep level of intuition.
Grasping in a sentence as an adjective
As a result we are all grasping for whatever we can to unburden ourselves while at the same time maintaining productivity.
You really think their assumption that Dropship would quickly turn Dropbox into an illegal file sharing haven is an unrealistic grasping of straws?
In his book he writes that it was very, very clear someone had basically flipped the switch at the DEA and said "shut him down any way you can." The fact that it was the mercury readings in his soil points to the fact they were grasping at straws, especially because they took dozens of soil samples and only one was mildly above normal limits.
It's just that it's a lot to ask of one single person and the position is vulnerable to Engineers grasping those skills and having a huge advantage in actually understanding the low level stuff much better.
Oh man, I'm now more confused than when I started....Anyway, for some reason, everyone who tries to describe Git already has such a strong understanding of it and it's oddities, that they are, for some reason, unable to lay it out properly for a noob IMO. I cannot figure out how anyone figures out Git, I assume there was some serious hand holding, because I'm just not grasping it and I usually "get" this stuff rather quickly.
Do they think that Javascript is not thousands of lines of C/C++ lurking in your browser?Good joke guys, but I don't think you realize which way the punchline is pointing...It sort of amazes me that people are being so hard on Dart, given that they should be grasping for any chance to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind.
Grasping definitions
understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
See also: seizing prehension
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
See also: avaricious covetous grabby greedy prehensile