How To Use Grasp In A Sentence

He comes from nowhere to win this contest and immediately is able to grasp a lot of the intricacies of the moviemaking process.
The Italian was rejected because of his weak grasp of English.
About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
They have shown they are grasping the nettle. Times, Sunday Times

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His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety.
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
Success in that final exam ensures that their parents' dream, which by now should also be their own, of a cap and gown clad university graduate is within grasp.
I personally think a more optimistic outcome is within our grasp as we understand more and more the way the brain works. Times, Sunday Times
At night, down on the water, they seem just beyond grasp, unreachably distant, like the past itself.
So extraordinary is this fact that we shall approach it from sev-eral perspectives to try to bring its enormity within our grasp.
a terrible power had her in its grasp
Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny.
I grasped his hands in mine, so tightly they almost cracked under the pressure.
That's our court, that's within our jurisdiction, within our grasp.
The tip of his lance got caught by the serrations of her sword, and he wrenched it out of her grasp, thinking he had won.
She evaded his grasp and left without another word, sashaying her hips tauntingly.
The task was beyond the intellectual grasp of some of the students.
Not one could grasp, or even imagine, the possibility that our simple-minded Palaeolithic ancestors were capable of art.
That was not an impossible ideal but it did require a subtle mind to grasp it.
Indeed, in 2002 it seemed that a firm grounding in popular mythology and local fauna was at least as important as a basic grasp of engineering in the designprocess. South Africa races ahead in battle of weirdest World Cup stadiums
Take a firm grasp of the handle and pull.
The elements of physics are difficult to grasp.
KOBE: We arrived at Kobe on the evening of April 10th, and fell at once into the grasp of the custom-house authorities, who proved, however, very lenient. Travels in the Far East
He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door.
In defense of “keen grasp of economics,” one of Matt’s fortes is an ability to be extremely annoyed by fallacies and oversights in cost-benefit calculation. Matthew Yglesias » Listmania
This allowed him to grasp a string attached to the neck of a bottle secreted in a concealed hollow inside the bark. Times, Sunday Times
I think I managed to grasp the main points of the lecture.
Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly.
She had exquisite taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.
It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
Grasp the bar with a shoulder-width grip and unhook it from the safety catch.
To move forward, the gripman squeezes the grip which grasps the moving cable under the slot in the street. SFGate: Top News Stories
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
The attitude of the local council is lamentable in not grasping this opportunity with both hands.
She did not need to take such a risk in the opening lap of a race with a medal very much in her grasp. Times, Sunday Times
All this is accomplished through one master program. and several subroutines, and requires no conscious grasp of the problem.
Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp.
The right balance of detail should help the reader quickly grasp the nature of the problem and your approach to it.
HOWE: Before I wrote this book I had never really grasped how often improvements in material terms fostered improvements in moral terms. National Review Online
You can grasp hold of the threads. Times, Sunday Times
He examined in detail its toxic effects, displaying an impressive grasp of prevailing medical theories. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
The machine's arms lifted up, grasping it's head, rock and stone cracking and falling off in large boulders.
Poseidon clothes himself in raiment of gold, grasps his gold whip, and takes his stand upon his chariot.
She tried to rip her wrist out of his grip but his grasp was too firm.
Wu Jinying is grasping steel knife to slaughter a cattle in workshop is involute arm, hand.
On the diagonalization strategy, we make use of our preexisting grasp of ordinary content to determine what ordinary content the thought would express if it were located at the center of a particular centered world, and then determine whether that ordinary content is true at that centered world. Narrow Mental Content
The ancient line between sacred and profane is hard for us to grasp now. The Times Literary Supplement
Wall Street would like nothing better than to make social security their own personal piggy bank, just as they now engrasp the FED. Will Hillary Take SS Benefits Away From The Boomers
She was unable to grasp how to do it.
But overall there is little sign that policy-makers have grasped the enormity of what has happened. Times, Sunday Times
Some of her archaeologist husband's finds can be seen in the museum, which is a must if you want to grasp the sophistication of Syrian art and civilisation of the two millenniums before Christ.
Deliberate learning situations have to be constructed if we want to pin causes down and further our grasp on the world.
I did have a good eye and ear for character, one of the few things I was able to grasp in playwriting and carry into fiction. Interview: Elizabeth Hand
Those who are at the summit level grasp them as constituting an indivisible unity.
First, if the rifle butt grasps not tightly, when gun violent beat, the rifle butt could hit finger's joint many, the number of times very easy to create the damage.
The shape of the pronotum (damselflies) and the head (dragonflies) is very important in reproduction, because the male grasps the female around her neck with appendages on the end of his abdomen. Insecta (Aquatic)
I'm interested in your view of how the abstract or ungraspable relates to the limitations of our physical lives-to the fact that we are material, mortal beings.
But their grasp of quantum mechanics is notoriously weak. Times, Sunday Times
This is a difficult concept to grasp for western consumers, who are worried about job cuts and a sluggish economic recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Grasp the handle with a single overhand grip and sit down on the seat as you normally would when doing pull-downs, your quads secured comfortably underneath the pads.
Stretch your arms upwards and imagine you're trying to grasp something just above your head.
The elements of physics are difficult to grasp.
In an instant he rushed across the street, and Brigg charged forward to meet him, grasping the hilt of his sword in both hands.
Similarly, the opportunity should be grasped to ease internal tensions.
There was another bit of the plan I never quiet understood which involved singing Marie Lloyd songs instead of calling the election while it was still winnable, but I don't pretend to have a firm grasp of psephology.
His articulate grasp of issues and willingness to say risky things will favorably contrast him with the overcautious candidates who parse every poll-tested word.
She wrenched herself from his grasp.
The only real help here is for bishops to grasp the true nature of their office and live it out.
Miriam caught up with me then, her hand grasping mine, her fingers fastening tight as she held me back. HIGH STAND
Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard. A Son of the Immortals
To make policy requires empathy, imagination and a firm grasp of statistics and probable outcomes. Times, Sunday Times
Many eyed Fred hopefully; for the word had gone around that upon him Riverport must depend to wrest victory from the grasp of that tall runner, Boggs, who was said to be a tremendous "stayer," and as speedy almost as Colon himself. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
They do not grasp the broad situation and spend their time magnifying ridiculous details.
Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.
Grasp the handles of the machine and inhale as you flex the knees and slowly curl the weights until the pads touch the buttocks.
The minutely balanced works, the gnomon fitted to the perpendicular plane, would be far beyond their grasp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
Strategic Studies said the 2005 meeting may help formulate ways to tackle issues such as HIV/AIDS but the long-term eradication of poverty would be beyond their grasp. ANC Daily News Briefing
After two months, his grasp on the subject was improving.
In the brightly illuminated room beyond the hall Helena and Gregory were playing parchesi -- Gregory firmly grasped the cup from which he intently rolled the dice; Helena shook the fair hair from her eyes and, it immediately developed, moved a pink marker farther than proper. Cytherea
She grasped at his shirt as he ran past.
This exceptional but as yet uncelebrated baritone rejoices in a lean, spinning, perfectly focused tone of unfailing natural beauty and vibrancy, while his grasp of Verdi style and phrasing is all but complete.
I personally think a more optimistic outcome is within our grasp as we understand more and more the way the brain works. Times, Sunday Times
The students had a grasp of decimals, percentages and fractions.
So much so that one begins to wonder if one is in fact witness to an ancient Flanderian sign language, life-threatening to those who fail to grasp its flailing inflections.
But behind a clumsy grasp of administration lies a sure populist touch. Times, Sunday Times
Many are walking around dazed and bewildered at the shape of things and the grasp of power.
Robin reached out, grasped it firmly again, and started to take a step forward.
By means of this algebraic method of thinking, objects are grasped spatially, in the blink of an eye.
As Yeltsin got up to greet Stroyev, he grasped the desk to steady himself.
Be like and prove oneself talks not and falsely, as well lift T-shirt dime, from wore the outlook that her ash receives to once sweep several best locations of his bodies to grasp a scar.
Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
During the fourth year the child learns to cut with scissors and to thread beads, develops a mature pencil grasp, and learns to draw.
The two men - who Rob later found out were orderlies - firmly grasped Rob by his arms and carried him out to the car.
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.
There's something that's simultaneously catchy and ungraspable about the whole thing, which just might explain its appeal.
For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode.
Set realistic goals, which Frank Typer defined brilliantly as those that are 'Beyond your grasp but within your reach.
I mean that's what religious contemplatives have tried to do and to grasp.
Grasp the concept of nozzle efficiency, isentropic stagnation and their calculation.
What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
Ms Palin has disqualified herself from that responsibility by showing a woeful grasp of policy.
We grasp the near impossibility of innocence in a country that has itself become a criminal conspiracy. Times, Sunday Times
The Government needs to look hard at it nationwide... and grasp the nettle. The Sun
Demonstrating a vastly incompetent grasp of the driving forces behind economic growth in modern "postindustrial" nations - for almost 40 years, now all new income has developed in the USA from developments in Libertarian Blog Place
We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion. The Talisman
Her hand grasped my shoulder, none too gently.
Take a bow and stretch your latissimus dors Position yourself in front of an open door frame, grasp the door knob with both hands and slowly bend over, leaning your weight back towards your heels. Terry Gardner: No Gym - No Excuse: Part 1
Always not quite there, within the poet's reach but not to be grasped, the ephemeral and transitory scenes open like views in a highly trafficked street, only to close again just as quickly.
Men with a good grasp of their problems tend not to resign. Times, Sunday Times
She grasped him tightly by the wrist.
He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate.
A short opening paragraph enables the reader to quickly grasp what the article is about.
They may feel smug, but that's because they as a group are as useful as a racehorse with callipers and can't quite grasp the importance of actual fact, nor how their legislation is harmful. Archive 2007-01-01
Many top jobs are within the grasp of historians.
It was an episode about grasping dreams and seeing them dissolve. Times, Sunday Times
He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem.
In his right hand, he grasps a round, smooth hammerstone as if it were a baseball. A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive
Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.
A sham stigmatist might well avoid those areas which would be subjected to additional pain - and made more difficult to heal - whenever one walked or grasped something.
The king was determined not to let Scotland slip from his grasp.
Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
Her hands grasped the tiniest cracks and protuberances and without thought to where they would take her, her feet scrambled for the slightest toehold!
The Lord grant that I may at last become an obedient and truly teachable child; for that faculty, whatsoever it be, that asks vociferously, seems not to be the one which, as I.P. says, "_graspingly receives," _ but is rather a hinderance to its reception. A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
With so few politicians having worked in research, few of them instinctively grasp the intricacies of the system 's reliance on this sort of serendipity. Times, Sunday Times
You can grasp hold of the threads. Times, Sunday Times
Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you.
The prose is clear enough that a math dunce like me can grasp it, and the superhero examples are enough, I think, to interest even someone who already knows physics.
This allowed him to grasp a string attached to the neck of a bottle secreted in a concealed hollow inside the bark. Times, Sunday Times
Even then, it is not the easiest proposition to grasp.
Although he had had no formal training on the job, he was quick to grasp the essential elements of espionage and counter-espionage.
And I know what it feels like to want quietly and graspingly for unknown things.
As consciousness first dawns, the infant begins to grasp — in the form of individual items of experience — jigsaw pieces in what might be an immense jigsawed picture of the meaning of his existence, and of life itself. Religion is like a jigsaw: it makes a picture out of puzzling chaos
The ball was wrenched out of his grasp by another player.
Comics are more than just spaceships and superheroes, so a strong grasp of character and composition is important.
Men with a good grasp of their problems tend not to resign. Times, Sunday Times
But they know a hell of a lot about copyright, so although the GPL is to most of them of little interest, they immediately grasp copyleft.
A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances. alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
Once you have painted all your M16/M4 magazines desert TAN and attached gutted 550 cord pull-carry loops you are ready for rapid recovery when emptied from your weapon: www. combatreform.com The best way to get the pull-carry loop into the snaplink/carabiner is by grasping it with your weak hand's trigger finger and using the other fingers to grasp the body of the snaplink/carabiner. WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13)
The sum is so beyond the realms of understanding that he can't grasp it.
I carve stone with every tool I can grasp, from hammers and chisels, pneumatic tools, diamond grinders and cutters, even diamond chain saws.
A pause: the speaker, though absent from our midst, has a fine grasp of the audience.
Now is the time to grasp firmly the reins of your own destiny. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
I grasp my aching head and turn around to see them laughing hysterically as the volleyball bounces away.
The recoil was so violent it almost tore the weapon from his grasp.
May our golden youth radiate indelible light. Grasp today! Wish you success in the College Entrance Examination!
It was because I hardly understood and grasped the situation myself.
I didn't do biology O-level , so I have not even the smallest grasp of the nutritional properties of plants and seeds, let alone animals.
In such a project the spiritual element of understanding, i.e., the grasp of the relations between the points on this mental map and the external world was relegated to the margin as simply "unutterable". HERMENEUTICS OF CULTURES IN A GLOBAL AGE
I grasped for landmarks, as we ascended the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.
What's more, it turned a difficult, obtuse administrative issue - campaign financing - into an easy-to-grasp, emotionally appealing one.
Faith, and you are _not_ blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
The press were slow to grasp the significance of what happened.
To begin, grasp a pull-up bar with an overhand grip.
Corporate and government leaders can't grasp the nuances of a process - they have no idea.
Many families with children are finding suitable housing beyond their grasp.
Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp.
Like so many, I am beyond fed up with an inert, intellectually lazy, nepotistic ALP that refuses to grasp the dangerous long term implications of the current government.
After all it is infinity itself that the untiring artist wants to grasp more than anything else in the world.
But the grasp of politicians on power is not likely to loosen quickly and the alternative democratic leadership is slow to develop.
With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
This is a difficult concept for the gaijin to grasp when brought up on the premise that the Japanese are a consensus society.
However, David is ready to grasp his opportunity should it be presented.
He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
I think with this he has grasped the ungraspable.
The key was on a high shelf, just beyond her grasp.
Since I had a grasp of Latin cultures but had never been given an opportunity to experience them, proximity aside, South America was definitely the right place to begin. Marie Elena Martinez: Reflecting on Hispanic Heritage Through the Lens of Travel
But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all traces of him more utterly than I had ever done before. Chapter 24
What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite.
The child squirmed free of the man's grasp and fell to the ground.
Without this crucial element, we can never expect to grasp fully the workings of large-group psychology.
The tangs don't extend all the way through to the end of the handle, the chef's knives have no defined shank for grasping the blade easily, and a few of the knives have ends that have snapped off from abuse.
Whether or not we shall grasp the opportunities to do so is entirely a different matter.
I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in. Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
I felt two hands cover my eyes, and I gasped in surprise, reaching up to grasp them.
\ "But reducing visual complexity to make things pleasing to the eye by hiding critical information, \" from knowledgeable stakeholders, will certainly increase composition and or \ "structural complexity\", and make it difficult for stakeholders to grasp full understanding. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Our nimble-minded imaginative people will rise to and grasp the most elevated ideas if properly presented. The Young Priest's Keepsake
She tried to turn, but the man's grasp on her body was too tight.
He has in his grasp the ability to reduce anyone to tears, through a snappy headline or lurid story.
He is favourably disposed to rivers and canals, exhibiting an impressive grasp of detail.
She grasped the coin and opened her wristlet, placing the money back inside.
One thing that movement conservatives have a hard time grasping is that so-called “characterological conservatives” do not necessarily (or even frequently) have any interest or anything in common with “conservatism” as an ideological movement. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History
As I grasped the cage another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
Alas, with this I think we are back to outreaching our grasp for wisdom.
There was no need for the minister to be defensive about his grasp of grammar. Times, Sunday Times
Solutions which seem self-evident to humans are often beyond the grasp of computers.
Scorpions which hunt live prey, usually insects or small rodents (not humans), are able to grasp the victim in their pincers and whip over the tail to sting and paralyse them.
The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed. III.4

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