Sentence examples for grasped firmly from inspiring English sources
No wonder Robert Frost, in the poem "Mending Wall," described one grudging neighbor repairing a wall as seeing the other "bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top/In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed".
Unless the risk of similar problems becoming embedded long term is to be avoided, the nettle of Israeli settlements must be grasped firmly now.Tom GillenDublinSIR – Were the Israelis actually to freeze the settlements, might not terrorists, sensing progress, redouble their efforts to derail the peace process by an escalating of suicide attacks?
Soon bars everywhere, and not a few private houses, laid in a stock of Irish whiskey and a handful of small stemmed glasses, often decorated with a shamrock, with a flange in the stem that could be grasped firmly without searing one's fingers.
During anaesthesia, mice were grasped firmly by the loose skin behind the head.
And the ones she grasped firmly enough not to drop, she shattered with her nails.
I see our new enemy (or friend) proud, Bringing his Bombs grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He eats with his knife and accompanies every gesture, every movement with his hand, with that implement, which he grasps firmly when he commences his meal and never puts down until he leaves the table.
Grab your opponent by his pants or shorts, in the belt area, and grasp firmly.
Gather up the four corners and four edges of the muslin and grasp firmly.
Some people find it easier (but more nerve-wracking sometimes) to grasp firmly at the base of those worked stitches and remove the right needle, leaving the loops open for you to feed the stitch holder through.
