Sentence examples for before grasping from inspiring English sources

The winger tried to shoot across Gilks but the goalkeeper got down well to save before grasping the loose ball.

She is, primarily, a pragmatist who played the political game to perfection before grasping the top job.

In manipulation tasks that require object acquisition, pre-grasp interaction such as sliding adjusts the object in the environment before grasping.

Another farm operated a full season before grasping that the reason its neighbours wouldn't come to its onsite market was that they could only get there by foot.

Sandwiched between these two rip-roaring chapters is the strange episode of Michael II, who reigned for a day, before grasping that the dynasty was no more.

There was a terrific fierceness about them — some would stamp their feet and let out a shriek before grasping the bar — but its focus was inward.

Grann dives into old paperwork, looking to extend the work of White, and in the final pages he discovers the solutions to several ice-cold cases that had lain in archive after archive, close at hand but never before grasped.

The venom of this description, like the undisguised pleasure that Arendt took in leaving Israel — "I have never before grasped the concrete meaning of 'relief' so clearly," she wrote at the end of a 1955 trip — suggests the great emotional forces at play.

The venom of this description, like the undisguised pleasure that Arendt took in leaving Israel—"I have never before grasped the concrete meaning of 'relief' so clearly," she wrote at the end of a 1955 trip suggests the great emotional forces at play.

It forced me to come to terms with a part of my identity I had never before grasped as a child in the Middle East.

But Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's "characters, acts, situations"...