How To Use Grapple In A Sentence

Can they grapple with the complex situation?
Instead he has to head to the balcony's edge and use the grapple on the second floor railing.
The children grappled for the ball.
Aside from the showmanship, Ebersole will look to keep the fight moving as Hallman has a wrestling background and is known as a grappler. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles.

They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them.
Others grapple with questions of theory and practice. The Times Literary Supplement
Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
It isn't always obvious who is supporting whom; the women grapple with their partners' bodies in ways we are used to the men doing with women -- and the grappling isn't obscured by all the prettifying tricks of classical ballet, part of whose magic is in the illusion of ease. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
Kim argues that simply heaping more punishment onto bullies is an easy way out for a society that doesn't want to grapple with widespread homophobia. The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Palin Revives Death Panels; Boobs Against Breast Cancer; and the Anti-Gay Bullying Crisis
Then, the Kamov will grasp the standing trunk with a hydraulic grapple at the bottom of the long line, break it off and ferry it to the landing.
But how does the New Jersey native, who moved to Rockland in 2004 with long-time partner PJ Walter, grapple with the prospect of serving a whopping 500 pie-eyed guests? Curtis M. Wong: Bobby Flay-Dubbed 'Pie Town U.S.A.' Celebrates National Pie Day
He attached the grapples to the edge of the pit and flung the ropes into the blackness.
He grappled her right wrist and moved it down to the mark.
Cognitive approaches to this problem have to grapple with how one cognizes reality and how one cognizes the emotions that result from the experience of that reality.
This important area is in flux as countries grapple with issues of individual privacy and business desires. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the film, the pair are forced to grapple with ethical dilemmas about their role as medics.
She grappled with the bank robber, but was thrown to the ground.
She had started out wary, in no way wishing to harm the prince, but after he attempted to grapple her, she had released all fury within her.
The startled barbarian grappled reflexively, neglecting the weapons that hung at his waist.
A few weeks ago, in an effort to cut my 2.5-mile treadmill run to under 30 minutes, I popped in "Vision Quest," the 1985 film about a high-school wrestler who comes of age while pursuing a single-minded obsession to get on the mat with the state's chiseled-from-stone champion grappler. Don't You Forget About Them
Two men grappled with a guard at the door.
Beyond this, the logger explains that his operators didn't really like dangle grapples, and felt more comfortable using fixed-mount designs.
A hydraulic thumb or clamp allows you to grasp rocks, tree stumps, and other oddly shaped objects, while a grapple makes it easy to handle brush and other bulky material.
As grapple fans the world over know, this only ever works in the arena of World Wrestling Entertainment.
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
Sonia grinned and crossed over to where the men were readying the grapples and cannons.
This ought to have been the perfect forum in which to grapple with such issues. Times, Sunday Times
The emergency budget includes a large rise in taxes and a cut in public spending, in an attempt to grapple with the country 's budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Passers-by grappled with the man after the attack.
The emergency budget includes a large rise in taxes and a cut in public spending, in an attempt to grapple with the country 's budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Today's standard demolition equipment does not include a wrecking ball but rather a hydraulic excavator with such attachments as grapples, shears, hammers, and concrete crushers.
When the snipe and the clam grapple , it is the fisherman who profits.
Here, the players grappled like bears and fought like tigers to stay on their feet.
Men up in the rigging let go of the sails, and men scattered on the main deck raced about grabbing swords, grapples, and preparing to board.
Events in Afghanistan serve as a spur for biographical flashbacks showing how Gen. Petraeus grappled with similar challenges in past commands. Measuring the Man in Charge
Ferguson punched Bishop in the face and grappled him to the floor, leaving the drug addict ‘battered and bruised’.
Each one of them worked up a long essay which, over a couple of terms, grappled with challenging ideas about the texts they had been reading.
In fact, in specific applications a rotating grapple gives you an advantage for digging in that you can dig straight down, where with a backhoe or an excavator you typically have to dig a trench to get a certain depth.
It is an immersive fantasy, to use the Mendlesohn typology, about Yeine, a young woman who discovers that she is a potential heir to the rulership of the entire world, and who has to grapple with palace politics and living deities to survive. Labour invokes Doctor Who, again
Easier to blame the unworldly bureaucrats in Whitehall or Brussels than recognise, never mind grapple with, the underlying tendencies to economic atrophy.
Our ability to grapple with the challenges these present is not enhanced by factually inaccurate and hyperventilated appeals from those who should know better. How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts
In fact, he used it to pay back a completely undocumented loan from his brother Tie, the millionaire ice-grappler.
Psychology ay palagi grappled sa survey paggamit ng mga salita. tingin ko sa debate na ito, talagang kami ay nakakakita ng kung paano mahalagang ito ay. Ideonexus.com »2006» Enero
I started with an old bucket from a front-end loader and removed the teeth and the grapple fork.
On Thursday, the former Extreme Championship Wrestling honcho posted pics on his Heyman Hustle website, hoping to prove Rihanna swagger-jacked the idea from his 1998 cover jacket featuring a grappler called Sandman. Rihanna “Rated R” Cover Art Revealed
a calamity before it comes, will exhaust our strength and spirits so far, as to disenable us to grapple with it, when it is come. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
I think we can work towards better lines of responsibility and delegation: what's harder is to grapple with the way projects are funded, and the way funders expect some very rigid sign-offs and processes. A call for agile museum projects (a lunchtime manifesto)
I have in mind a dim memory of the Commissioner trying to grapple with this kind or problem.
The Captain closed the distance and the two grappled in a two-handed Indian wrestling stance.
But really, the climate issue is just a way of trying to grapple with this fundamental uneven marketplace; the incorporation of the "cost of carbon" (because we have used the "fear" lever in the spectrum of fear and greed that the marketplace right now recognizes as the only two drivers for economic activity) is a way of monetizing fossilization in that extracted petroleum, coal, hydrocarbon feedstock. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
Batgirl fires the grapple into the night and leaps off the roof, swinging into the darkness.
It has been much in the headlines lately as the member states of the European Union grapple with the pros and cons of funding such research.
Army now in all men's mouths because of its gallant and distinguished share in the June and July fighting on the Marne -- were to attack towards Mézières and Metz, while the British Armies struck towards St. Quentin and Cambrai -- in other words, looked onward to the final grapple with the "great fortified zone known as the Hindenburg line. Fields of Victory
He likes nothing better than locking arms, hooking thumbs and hunkering down for a quick grapple on a table.
The two of them then grappled and fell on to the sofa but during the struggle he grabbed the purse and fled.
Here he was already locked in grapples with the great Guggenhammers, and winning, fiercely winning. Chapter XIII
She grappled with the bank robber, but was thrown to the ground.
But, with respect, it certainly grapples with some of the difficult matters that this case raises and I bring it to your Honours' attention.
They grappled on the floor in an unseemly wrestling match. Times, Sunday Times
These grapple types are performed by pressing up, down, left or right in conjunction with an attack button, making for 16 grapples per wrestler.
He says the first thing wannabe grapplers are taught is how to fall properly, because safety is paramount, and they then progress onto a basic move called the collar and elbow tie-up, which is the move that starts most matches.
This high court ruling is not the first to grapple with sovereignty in questions of liability for content published on the borderless Web.
Born and reared among the lowly, a stranger to wealth and luxury, compelled to grapple single-handed with the flintiest hardships of life, from tender youth to sturdy manhood, he grew strong in the manly and heroic qualities demanded by the great mission to which he was called by the votes of his countrymen. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
The fashion entrepreneur Michael Pearce grappled with this question when he decided to relaunch Biba, the iconic swinging London label that defined the hippie era.
Suddenly she about-faced and grappled him into the undergrowth.
The coalition must also grapple with tough budget cuts. Times, Sunday Times
But Musa gently declines this interpretation; to her, Viola is less a complex androgyne, more an innocent, maligned woman who grapples with her unrequited love for Duke Orsino, and mourns her presumed-dead twin brother, Sebastian.
Others grapple with questions of theory and practice. The Times Literary Supplement
Larger animals with the speed and power to escape are grappled by the hindquarters until the leopard can seize the throat.
A brief grapple ensued, pushing and shoving aplenty all round, and I duly broke free, uninjured and unrobbed.
He said that the gun went off again when Mrs Thompson, bleeding from a wound to her body, tried to grapple with the gun.
This desire is most evident in the notorious, homoerotic wrestling match, where the two naked men grapple to a draw.
They grapple with, and seem to get, the term 'heteronormative'. Times, Sunday Times
The out of control memory leak remains unchecked while Redmond's Red Adairs grapple to put a lid on the blow-out.
A reluctant bank raid hero told how he thought he was going to die when he grappled with a masked gunman.
The meaning of life and the struggle for power are aspects our society still grapples with as we enter into the new millennium.
This ought to have been the perfect forum in which to grapple with such issues. Times, Sunday Times
This is a combined rotator and tilting mechanism with a multi-directional action that allows buckets, grapples, grapple saws, or other attachments to be positioned exactly where required for any job.
In his latest essay, he grapples with the fact that those costs have become painfully evident, and the larger concerns of security, justice and freedom increasingly elusory.
They managed to grapple him to the ground.
In other bouts, the rikishi may grapple in an attempt to get a good grip on the mawashi and then launch a throw.
Two men grappled with a guard at the door.
With the deportment of one who grapples with a suppositious onomasticon, this solicitation of manuscription shall be adventured with due diligence. ShoutWire.com
He grabbed the man from behind and tried to grapple him to the ground.
His first action was to grapple O'Donovan, a move which earned him a yellow card barely 30 seconds after coming on.
Irving came up with the idea of installing a grapple saw on the chipper cranes to select and buck the prime butt sawlogs before chipping the rest of the tree.
Keenly sensitive to these insults, Raglan had to grapple with a French command whose sense of purpose seemed infirm.
In like manner the interchange of persons produces a vivid impression, and often makes the hearer feel that he is moving in the midst of perils: -- "Thou hadst said that with toil unspent, and all unwasted of limb,/They closed in the grapple of war, so fiercely they rushed to the fray;" (Iliad XV. 697, at Perseus) Archive 2010-03-01
Their philosophy also tries to grapple with the notion of involution as well as evolution is I'm not mistaken. The President and Intelligent Design
The photographers, who have backgrounds in commercial and artistic photography, including nudes, say they felt it was important to allow the women to decide how best to express their grieving processes and grapple with their changed views of femininity after their mastectomies. The Power of an Image
Pughson, who, after dealing her one of his butcherly gibes, bade her to the blackboard, to grapple with the Seventh Proposition. The Getting of Wisdom
The days of beer-bellied grapplers applying a headlock or an armbar for five or six minutes are long gone.
A good serious play must therefore be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple; and the same is true of what I call, for that reason, the dramatic novel. Memories and Portraits
Included are a black plastic logo stand to help keep him upright on the shelf (although, you probably won't need it), a pair of "bat cuffs," an extra pare of "bendy" hands that can be posed in various positions, various batarangs (including a larger folding one), and a grapple gun, of sorts, with an enclosed rope. DC Direct 13" Classic Batman
‘Nice,’ Anna retorted, not fully understanding Leanne's explanation of the grapple but pretending that she did anyway.
I was working my body kicks and my leg kicks and boxing using my knees in the grapple.
In the bottom were two men, strays from the fight, grappled together and still fighting. CHAPTER IV
She stepped to the side, away from him as he made to grapple her from behind, and ducking under his massive arms, moved back quickly until she was behind him instead.
Some of the most surprising feedback I’ve had since the festival screenings is a lot of response from men saying that they have grappled with body issues their whole life, and held back from chasing their dreams because of self-doubt. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
This ought to have been the perfect forum in which to grapple with such issues. Times, Sunday Times
Dio lived through turbulent times: he and his fellow senators quailed before tyrannical emperors and lamented the rise of men they regarded as upstarts, and in Pannonia he grappled with the problem of military indiscipline.
Unlike the clay chicken, there was no thingness with which to grapple. Globe and Mail
The Skipper grappled with a magnum of champagne. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
Elis, unsubdued and unchastened, heaved himself free and grappled in his turn. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
Among the tools you may select direct from this manufacturer with the excavator are thumbs, grapples, shears, hammers, and crushers.
Such issues have been under - examined as Chinese policymakers grapple with how to halt a housing boom.
Even as you grapple with the logistical and psychological stress of eldercare, there will be moments when you find yourself on the "blessing path.
This important area is in flux as countries grapple with issues of individual privacy and business desires. Times, Sunday Times
If he sees rot or physical deformities at either end, he uses the grapple saw to snip off a two-foot section.
We do not pause here to represent the apparent inconsistency of desiring to de-citizenize a large number of intelligent members of the community, or the risk of creating a class in the republic forbidden to take any active interest in the renewals of its organization, or the impolicy of diminishing the force and courage of the popular will in its grapple with the problem of self-government; but all these comments may suggest themselves. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
He sent up a grapple to the window, and started climbing despite our worries.
Friends, wives, lovers, parents, daughters of the unlucky ones must also grapple with the consequences.
Two men grappled with a guard at the door.
Billy piloted the ship forward towards the pirates, with his own grappler arms extended.
Efforts to streamline local government, largely tabled this year as legislators grappled with property-tax issues, could gain momentum under a new coalition that is pushing for changes in a system described as cumbersome and redundant. The Indiana Law Blog
We'd slam each other in turn, sometimes dragging the other down to the mat to grapple in laughter, cut off suddenly by a choke or a tap-out from a lock.
The addition of one tiddly little grapple to allow it to be berthed (a bit - it's not a proper docking mechanism, not least because the CEV LIDS is still a bit inchoate) does not make JWST truly a man-tended design - it's just a big unmanned spacecraft with a handle. Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch
As any current observer of demolition will tell you, grapples and thumbed buckets are pervasive for cleanup work.
These techniques taught the samurai how to grapple when wearing armor and struggling with an opponent wearing armor.
It is a call to look inside ourselves and our societies for the roots of chauvinist pastiche and a chilling demonstration of the fact that unless we go out and grapple with complexity, complexity will come in and smother us.
As a footnote to the above, you might be interested in this video clip, in which an educator (Howard Rheingold) grapples with the notion that learners now feel “entitled” to check their email, tweet, google, text, etc – and that the classroom is a “marketplace” in which different attentional foci must compete. A is for Attention « An A-Z of ELT
The boost in graphical detail has also improved their movements, making their dodges, grapples and infiltrations seem much more realistic.
Christian grappled with the body but it wouldn't uncurl: maybe rigor mortis had set in. THE EXECUTION
Managers have learned to grapple with networking, artificial intelligence, computer-aided engineering and manufacturing.
SINGAPORE—A rise in Japan's shares led most Asian stock markets higher Friday, as the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed to a coordinated intervention to stanch the yen's recent surge, providing some relief as the nation grapples with last week's crippling earthquake and a continuing nuclear crisis. Asia Markets Higher; Tokyo Up 2.5%
In a savagely comic scene, Vera grapples with how this violation has left her feeling.
After oohing and aahing at the view (even me, vertigo-on-a-staircase man), we grappled with the extensive, if not adventurous, menu.
A combination of factors, including species, pile height and operator preference had led him to look for a new grapple, in this case one that didn't yet exist.
With 1.4 billion swipes a day and a notoriously fickle user base, it is a question that millions of users have grappled with and got wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Should the talented grappler fall the way of so many others and succumb to GSP in April, a match between Shields and Penn would be a ground aficionado's wet dream. Elliot Worsell: BJ Penn -- What Next?
You are not drowned after all," said he, "and there's my money gone that I spent for a gross of stenlock hooks to grapple you. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
As the primary unit of man's social living, the modern family has to grapple with several problems.
Suddenly she about-faced and grappled him into the undergrowth.
With this kind of configuration, the grapple works like a hand as opposed to a thumb and bucket, which is more like wearing a mitten.
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Won't that poor little mind of yours grapple with the fact that the Hawkins Alcomotive is a success -- a _success? Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
Managers have learned to grapple with networking, artificial intelligence, computer-aided engineering and manufacturing.
Ezra Klein grapples with Tom Daschle’s withdrawal. Matthew Yglesias » Daschle Postmortem
At a project in New Jersey, a One-Line System was used with a conventional, midsize, two-drum cable crane and a grapple to clean out debris from behind a dam.
He's not grappling with issues of post-human technology, but his novels are profoundly life-affirming, especially as he grapples with issues of aging and disease.
When you're infamous, it's hard to grapple with the difficulties of notoriety.
The Auto Grab system constantly monitors tong pressure and adjusts to securely hold grapple loads while skidding, thus reducing operator work load.
They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
An elite military unit has to grapple with codes and ciphers to find an antidote to a bioweapon 2009 August 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
In this queer pedantism of a man who had read, thought, lived, pen in hand, there is the sincerity of the attempt to grapple by the same means with another profounder knowledge. Under Western Eyes
Managers have learned to grapple with networking, artificial intelligence, computer-aided engineering and manufacturing.
This important area is in flux as countries grapple with issues of individual privacy and business desires. Times, Sunday Times
And as it has had to grapple with challenges to the whole globe, such as climate change, Aids and biodiversity.
Michael Lipham, in Ann Arbor, Mich., says he, too, "grappled" with whether to restrict the funds he was giving to a family member "to something about which I would feel good. Money to Grandma? The Readers Vent.
A brief grapple ensued, pushing and shoving aplenty all round, and I duly broke free, uninjured and unrobbed.
And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage. February 2010
This ought to have been the perfect forum in which to grapple with such issues. Times, Sunday Times
The yard is full of gear: fellerbunchers, grapple skidders, two delimber debarker chippers, trucks, service vans and other assorted machines.
This is reminiscent of the pre-accord nuclear crisis in 1994 when the world grappled with the North to avert a possible disaster in the wake of its unilateral renunciation of the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.
We, on the other hand, should bury our natural instincts (which would be to bulldoze the didicoy encampment forthwith) and revel as this ineffably superior representative of the UK Nomenklatura has to grapple with the impingement of the real world on hers. Archive 2008-03-23
Again, it is assumed that readers know aquamarine is beryl, amethyst is quartz, and Iceland spar is calcite but cannot grapple with the complexity of remembering that spessartine and grossular are garnets.
In various jurisdictions the law has grappled with these contending policy considerations using a variety of legal tools.
The combat itself flows extremely well - the characters often look like they're dancing as they weave in and out of one another's grapples, roundhouse kicks and uppercuts.
Speaking of buying, the price of four Grapples is three dollars more than four unadulterated apples.
The emergency budget includes a large rise in taxes and a cut in public spending, in an attempt to grapple with the country 's budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
European stocks ended a choppy session in the black Tuesday, as investors grappled with a mixed bag of economic data. European Stocks End Higher
King Kryger first saw Ray carrying another boy in a school-yard fight game called Horse, in which two heavier boys carried two lighter boys on their shoulders, and the boys on top grappled and tried to “unhorse” each other. Raymond Carver
On the one hand, it is too easy to blame victims rather than grapple with the reason why they are victims.
Because of a desperate economics that I won't try to grapple with here, New York theater is gradually narrowing itself to two sorts of entertainment: the million-dollar musical and the sawbuck monologue.
This enabled them to keep their distance while they fought, and avoid the risk of being grappled by the larger Spanish ships with their massed ranks of soldiery.
If the post-war French and the British represent two rather caricatured but nevertheless illuminative models of how to grapple with the end of empire, we have unfortunately elected to adopt the violent and undignified Gaulist approach. Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devil's Decade
We're quite proud of the grapple system - you're able to do anything from body slams to arm twists and throws - you name it.
~ The wizard drops a daze cantrip on the other one so the cleric can grapple him without suffering an AOO, and the cleric then holds down the gobby while the rogue lays down the coup de grace. D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related
Willie then dives on Malcom and grapples him to the concrete floor.
The fight featured almost as much wrestling as boxing as the two men grappled and pushed, especially in the first few rounds.
She grapples with the issues of the day and puts them to bed with humour, sincerity and a small glass of sherry.
You'd expect such a book all right—you'd hope to be reflective, to be self-questioning and questioning of others, and to grapple with the ruin of U.S. foreign policy circa 2001-08. The One That Got Away
The company has expanded the selection of grapples available to loggers with its new line of severe-duty grapples and new rotators.
Some, she says, grapple with the difficult question of whether it would be kinder to euthanize a pet than ask it to go on under such difficult circumstances.
Seeing she was no match for the animal in this grapple, the mother extended her hand into the bear's mouth.
the two men grappled with each other for several minutes
That said … I still think this project would get better traction in Europe, where the population densities are higher, mobile roaming is a shark, and ISP+Carriers are still trying to get a grapple on which way is North (certain markets/cities are served very well, while expansion plans are often perplexing). Mapping Clearwire’s Deployment Using Job Listings
Suddenly she about-faced and grappled him into the undergrowth.
Birds grappled and fell, fighting, to the ground, where we could see and hear them flapping and pecking one another in the leaf litter.
Dude, I REALLY want to learn some sort of self-defense art … you know, the kind of thing that would ACTUALLY WORK if you got jacked, as opposed to doing Karate kicks and then getting your ass beat down by a big grappler. How to fail at your goals | Johnny B. Truant
The coalition must also grapple with tough budget cuts. Times, Sunday Times
They even punched and grappled and ducked occasionally, fiercely and physically fighting him off in whatever way they could.
Can they grapple with the complex situation?
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We went to the same schools, in more and more intimate companionship, from the time we were twelve until we were twenty years of age; and our lives and hearts were "grappled" to each other with "links of steel" ever after. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
In spite of these quibbles, Lancaster's book should prove a valuable resource to ministers and serious laity who are willing to grapple with issues of biblical authority.
Listening to him describe how he grappled with a sense of anger and frustration coupled with his personal mandate to lead our country through this devastating attack was incredibly powerful. George W. Bush Gives First Interview About Osama bin Laden: "I Felt a Sense of Closure"
I remember when the only good fighter was the machine gun tripper. now he can use bullrush, disarm, even grapple effectively and is usually pretty damned good at defending against those same type of attacks. Pathfinder Fighter vs. Ice Devil? « Geek Related
Others grapple with questions of theory and practice. The Times Literary Supplement
I had no time to even hold or grapple him… - I was then taken to the ground, and I got choked at first.
When chippers and grinders are parked at a landing area, skidders, excavators, or loaders with grapples or rakes bring the wood material to the processing machine, where the end product is piled up for later use.
The whole essay eschews formal analysis and comment, and just kind of grapples with the subject matter; strands of argument not really left dangling as much as intricately (read: confusingly, but coherently) tied in a personal twist. Menachem Kaiser: How DFW Got Me a C+
The council has been troubled during its history," Brimmer said, "but the best way to really try to grapple [with] serious problems on the council is from the inside as a member.
She insisted on some self-defence classes where I learnt how to grapple properly. The Sun
The way film-makers have grappled with that challenge - first avoiding it, then rushing at it in a collective stampede - is not just a story about the evolution of the cinema.
Men grappled with heavy implements all day long, then hit the local pub to drink ale from a 10-pound beer tankard, fight and arm-wrestle.
Combine the rope and magnet to grapple on the scrowl head. Archive 2008-09-01
With one minute remaining in a closely contested match, the gritty 16-year-old grappler asked the referee for an ‘injury timeout.’
And don't think that you can get away with it in shoes - there's a whole legwear issue to grapple with. Times, Sunday Times

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