Sentence examples for forced to grab from inspiring English sources

With no gun, Viv was forced to grab a pen, which she used to slit her wrists in the bathroom.

Unlike so much of palaeontology we're not forced to grab bits of data from fossils all over the world in different conditions and different environments to fill in the gaps, so it's a superb "natural" experiment in this regard.

With expansive views, it is quite a change from Shea Stadium's back of the hand for hungry fans, the tunnel-like corridors where they were forced to grab a bite.

The study, recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, reports there are circumstances – such as when geckos fear for their lives, leap into the air and are forced to grab on to a leaf below – when they need every bit of that fabled adhesive ability, and sometimes it's not enough.

Mr. Gorski, a 55-year-old gay man who said he learned his trade impersonating Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli in his youth, uses such tricks as giving a client very long nails so he is forced to grab a fork more delicately.

Powell was O'Connor's favourite, a 'wonderful man' willing to do 'anything' she needed, whereas White – a former football halfback – had such a powerful handshake that she was forced to grab his thumb with her fist as a pre-emptive measure to prevent injury.

In 1992, when it looked as though Serbia might use force to grab Macedonia back, Mr Gligorov asked for a contingent of UN soldiers as a trip-wire against the Serbs.

If one militia fears that another will try to use force to grab control of the army, or a city, then it has a strong incentive to use force to prevent this.

Combatants in Iraq and other civil wars, Fearon told a congressional hearing last year, fear their opponents will use force to grab power, even as they themselves recognize that a power grab could get them all the spoils: "These fears and temptations are mutually reinforcing.

The publishers then "combined forces to grab control over price," she wrote, referring to five of the "Big Six" publishers -- Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Hachette.

A curve forced him to grab for the steering wheel, spilling half the cup.