grasping

Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.

These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings.

I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.

You're grasping at straws.

Did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man?

Most of us have a hard time grasping how far away the moon is.