handhold
Example Sentences
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Three men were climbing the Gribin Ridge in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia, on Saturday, when the handhold collapsed.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023
She started as a country singer, has found a handhold firmly in pop, but albums like "Reputation" have a more gritty and experimental feel.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2022
One design resembles a swinging pair of saloon doors, and the other has plastic half-discs on top to prevent gate hoppers from getting a handhold to launch a leap.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
High on a wall in West Virginia, entrusting his weight to a narrow handhold, another shrieks “in all out battle mode,” according to Lynch’s caption; but is he shrieking in pain, exhilaration or fear?
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
I grabbed hold of a rope I’d strung there at waist level to serve as a handhold and began to sidestep along the ledge to the corner of the platform.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
