grasp
Example Sentences
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What all of this does not mean, according to zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge, is that dogs grasp the meaning of language.
The CEOs who participated in our survey seemed to grasp this.
From Barron's
Unlike traditional handles that stick out on the door surface and can always be grasped by hand, the retractable handle sinks into the door and isn’t graspable in its default position.
“Again I floated between big logs, grasping anything floating to stay up. The logs were far too big to hold much,” said Venus.
From Literature
“One of the things I was thinking about was when we dream and then we wake up, there’s this extreme, fleeting moment where you’re trying to grasp the dream,” Sze said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
