Sentence examples for grab firmly from inspiring English sources

Yet a norovirus can only grab firmly onto a cell if its proteins fit snugly onto the cell's blood type antigen.

The text places the issue of land and land-grabbing firmly within the history and soul of a country that continues to feel the wounds of mass killings by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and of years of civil war that came before and afterwards.

"I want to grab them firmly by the shoulders and say, 'You are so self-obsessed and self indulgent.

To throw a ball, grab it firmly with your fingers on one or both hands, but your arm(s) back like a slingshot, and throw all your strength to the front of you and let go of the ball.

But then she grabbed me firmly by the wrist.

Mr. Sepúlveda grabbed him firmly by the shoulders and neck and whispered something in his ear, but Mr. Peña refused to leave the stage.

The correct response to such claims, however, is not to exaggerate what is going on, or to pander to it, or for politics to start to ape reality shows, but to grab such people firmly by the shoulders, shake them vigorously, and tell them to their face that they are idiots.

"With Scott, he hasn't had the chance to grab a spot firmly yet, but there's a gap because of Graeme Swann's retirement," Lewis explained.

Grab the scruff firmly.

Firmly grab the legs.

Grab your beverage firmly around the neck.