glom on to

1 the manager glommed the shoplifter just as she was about to bolt out of the store

2 But like starfish glomming onto rocks, the metaphor took hold in the scientific and public imagination.

3 Drake is often accused of being a culture vulture, and glomming onto younger artists around the world for relevance.

4 TikTok is now a multibillion-dollar shopping experience — and companies have glommed on.

5 End of carousel Regina and Reina glommed onto the idea of making a Chisholm biopic — the first, despite the representative’s many accomplishments — in the late aughts.

6 X-Raying the Cosmos After the Big Bang, subtle density variations in the newborn universe gradually became more pronounced as matter particles glommed onto each other.

7 Crowding has made the mountain more dangerous over the past 20 years as the commercial mountaineering industry glommed onto the peak.

8 The scene crescendos with a moment of Yueh standing before burning palm trees, an image Villeneuve glommed on to for his.

9 Some new physics models tweak dark energy, adding a surge of cosmic acceleration in the early moments of the universe, before electrons and protons glommed onto each other.

10 They used every stratagem to acquire the company.

他们想方设法占有这家公司。

11 He keeps everything he can lay his hands on.

他占有每一样能得到手的东西。