grips

He is a trans man, a Ugandan, and is in America seeking asylum from the anti-LGBT oppression that grips his country.

The ladies beside me were clutching their iPhones in what appeared to be death grips.

First of all, he grips his shirt tight, then it falls open, then the game is up, and he knows he must be a good sport.

And how seemingly irrational it is to people outside of its grips.

In 1995 the doctor returned to Chicago, a city in the grips of urban violence.

As the car drew up he lifted two leather grips on to the step, and Mareno, descending, took charge of them.

Despair grips my heart, as I hesitatingly admit to myself the probable truth.

But when they came to grips with facts, it seemed that Sir Rowland had as little idea of what might be done as had the ladies.

Didn't you carry Mr. Morley's grips up to his room for him that night, room number four hundred and twenty-one?

"I know all about it; the blamed thing grips me now and then if I work too hard and cut out a meal," he said.