Sentence examples for grasped tightly from inspiring English sources

He held high a sign asking for work, the cardboard placard grasped tightly as possible between frozen fingers.

When Frank, who'd been my editor at our college newspaper, propositioned me at lunch downtown, I froze, a beignet grasped tightly in my claw equidistant between my plate and my maw.

So we need to stiffen our spines and broaden our embrace, grasp tightly but reach out far.

"According to the rankings, we'd have to be the underdog," said San Diego forward Gyno Pomare, grasping tightly to the Toreros' 13th seed.

I switched gears from being okay with losing myself to grasping tightly to the idea that all would be lost if I let the old me, the presumed "real" me, go.

We grasp tightly onto our dirty, old habits of prejudice by focusing on the surface issues of race, when instead I believe the world is much more dynamic and simplified if we infuse a larger dose of humanity back into it.

Still, Hansen's time on the basketball team and in each of her other endeavors not only showcased an uncanny ability to cram as much as possible into the fleeting moments of her high school days, but to grasp tightly to the real world of being a high school kid while balancing her luge aspirations around the globe.

Water strider males grasp tightly the female's thorax with their forelegs in order to overcome the female's resistance.

If it's small, you will need to put your hands together as if in a prayer, and grasp tightly.

He grasped it, tightly, and they both closed their eyes and leaned in toward each other, as if in prayer.

Catherine was thrilled to boast of Diderot's friendship, and their conversations left some lasting marks — the bruises on Catherine's legs, for example, when the excited philosophe grasped them tightly to make a point — but the empress had little patience with his idealism.