Sentence examples for I grasped for from inspiring English sources

I can't say I grasped for certain what the play means.

I grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror I fell into the abyss".

I grasped for hope, and that hope kept me alive.

I grasp for it eagerly, like a drowning man reaching for a life preserver.

As much as I grasp for ways to describe these drawings, to relate them to some kind of stable imagery, they mutate into something else.

It's when I read this that I realise what I was grasping for during Belfort's explanation of the Quaalude high " "I've been here before".

A year of experience had led Edward to a conclusion that I hadn't grasped for myself: For the guy, Edward was OK to screw privately but not date publicly.

Stumbling out of bed, weak and tired, I grasped the air searching for a small black kit.

"I was grasping for a viewpoint that I could make the center of everything, and after he did that, I had just what I needed," Mr. McMahon said.

I grasped immediately that tactics are for him second nature and the theme of deflection is child's play for him.

This is when I grasped how grateful I was for my two healthy, happy little boys at home, and I decided that yes, someone was missing from our family, but it wasn't necessarily a daughter who was missing: it was just another person.