grips

Example Sentences

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She grips her stuffed animals when she’s nervous, which is often.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Downtown Los Angeles could hit 101 degrees and Glendale may reach 104 degrees on Tuesday as a record-shattering March heat wave grips the region.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

At times, the panic it induced in opposition defences - who were still getting to grips with 2024 law tweaks outlawing deliberate blocking of chasers - was even relished.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

As Evie, the teenage narrator, explains, “at that time in my personal life, I was coming to grips with the end of the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

As they bounced off each other they lost their grips on the rope, and it was sucked into the Mr. Flux cyclone, which spun in such a blur he was more like wind than man.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles