Synonym: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile, prehension, seizing, taking hold. Similar words: grasp, aspire, spin, spine, aspiration, spinal cord, grass, grassroots. Meaning: ['græspɪŋ /'grɑːs-] 
n. 1. understanding with difficulty 2. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands. adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
n. 1. understanding with difficulty 2. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands. adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. 
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1, Her hands were grasping at his coat.
2, Hanson was a hard, grasping man.
3, Young children have difficulty grasping the finality of death.
4, Be careful. Those grasping taxi - drivers might charge you too much.
5, The claws of a crab are used for grasping things, especially food.
6, Is she a grasping airhead or a complete naif?
7, Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce 
8, There is a grasping generation of young entrepreneurs.
9, Grasping it in his left hand again, he resumed a grip on his gun.
10, She had tried to be hard and grasping, tried to deal with this in a sophisticated, detached manner.
11, Red with rage, Frank turned on Anna, grasping her arm in a vice-like grip.
12, Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
13, He reappeared, grasping the unfortunate by the scruff of his shabby collar.
14, There, grasping the snail firmly in the talons of one foot, it waits.
15, Not like with Ryan, a sort of frantic grasping at straws, in love with the idea of love, romance.
16, Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself,[http://sentencedict.com/grasping.html] she leaned precariously out to grab it.
17, Their true jaws are of obvious advantage for grasping prey.
18, It fastened on Mala like a grasping hand and snatched her into the air.
19, This involves grasping the dynamic inter-relation between new scientific knowledges and the much broader public debates over national efficiency and imperial survival.
20, Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants, Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened.
21, Utilitarian notions in the social sciences are not enough for even providing a conceptual framework for grasping what actually happens.
22, He ducked his head and butted Orcadai under the chin, his hands grasping for purchase.
23, The macaques' delicate hands look remarkably human and are well adapted for grasping and holding objects.
24, Monsignor Delgard sank to his knees, one hand still grasping the top of the lectern.
25, Yes, I was selective in the midst of bounty, grasping, even, at who or what I loved most.
26, He seems like a good guy to me, not at all the usual grasping political type.
27, Betty was the Blue Girl, with a hawk-wing swoop of black hat, forbidding gaze, hands grasping the white chair.
28, There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy.
29, The concentration on detail and the speaker's reaction might prevent you from grasping the speaker's meaning anyway.
30, In this Jarman sits, Prospero-like, sniffing flowers as if grasping at a memory of happier times.
More similar words: grasp, aspire, spin, spine, aspiration, spinal cord, grass, grassroots, carping, impinge, camping, dumping, dipping, damping, chopping, developing, shopping bag, housekeeping, eavesdropping, grazing, programming, developing countries, living thing, aspect, asperity, teaspoon, exasperate, blasphemy, thomas paine, exasperation.