Grab
Grab verb - To take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Vanishing on 7th Street, a power outage in Detroit has allowed shadow creatures to invade and grab nearly everyone who doesn't have a light source on them.
Source: Darkness Equals Death - When the island city of Tyre refused to surrender to Alexander the Great, knowing that Alexander didn't have a fleet to invade with, Alexander reacted by cutting down all the trees near and far and grab all the rocks and spend eight months ''turning the island into a Peninsula!
Source: Determinator / Real Life
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