GRASPING in a Sentence

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247 example sentences for GRASPING, such as:

1. You must release your grasp of the rope.
2. He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.
3. If you grasp this rope, I will pull you up.
4. She has a comprehensive grasp of the subject.
5. We need to grasp the nettle of prison reform.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRASPING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grasping
 a.  seizing; embracing; catching; exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He stopped short, not grasping what he heard.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The mills had been her darlings, her pride, the fruit of her small grasping hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
3  The negroes had frolicked through the legislature, grasping aliens had mismanaged the government, private individuals had enriched themselves from public funds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
4  The broad, straight, unenticing gashes of the streets let in the grasping prairie on every side.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
6  It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
7  The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVIII
8  A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
9  He then seated himself in the center of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
10  The mother sank under the blow, and fell, grasping at her child, in death, with the same engrossing love that had caused her to cherish it when living.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
12  Anyhow, I feel great grasping white hands in the air, wanting to get hold of the throat of anybody who tries to live, to live beyond money, and squeeze the life out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  Oh, no, no, never mind,' said the young woman, grasping Oliver's hand; 'I'm better now.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  While the reddleman was grasping the stakes Wildeve seized the dice and hurled them, box and all, into the darkness, uttering a fearful imprecation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
15  Her hands were grasping the arms of her chair, and I saw that the pink nails had turned white with the pressure of her grip.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  If you grasp this rope, I will pull you up.
17  He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.
18  We need to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
19  You must release your grasp of the rope.
20  He cannot grasp the realities of the situation.
21  She has a comprehensive grasp of the subject.
22  Mr. Brown's views on economic matters are pretty well established and internationally he's known among finance ministers for his grasp of detail.
23  In this stage, the intellect is able to grasp all knowledge, and does not need to have recourse to the senses again.
24  Internationally he's known among finance ministers for his grasp of detail and his intellectual rigor.
25  At the very least, to be consistent, you should remain mute when confronted with those who do feel they have some grasp on Truth.
26  Let me recast this sentence in terms your feeble brain can grasp: in words of one syllable, you are a fool.
27  Taiwan opposition leader urges Chen to grasp chance for peace with China.
28  The government does, however, want them to have a decent grasp of what customs and values make this country tick.
29  Women have been taught from a young age to be aware of their surroundings and to be very security conscious. I think women intuitively grasp the need for security.
30  He was, of course, both humane and probably even saintly, but like another giant of history, he was also a shrewd and smoothly manipulative politician with a keen strategic grasp of pragmatic possibilities.