Sentence examples for grasping hand from inspiring English sources

His face seemed to reach for something, his features like a grasping hand.

I remember a woman becoming quite upset by pictures of children around an ice-cream van because she couldn't tell which grasping hand belonged to which child.

Mr. Martin and a colleague steadied it by grasping hand rails and trotting alongside, like parents teaching a child to ride a bicycle without training wheels.

YOU can spot the grasping hand of Dennis Kozlowski everywhere at the Manhattan headquarters of Tyco, an industrial conglomerate whose disgraced former boss conjures up everything that went wrong with American business in the late 1990s.

As soon as I jerked the blade of the shovel back his arm came thrusting out of the hole, and it was a shock to see this grasping hand and the arm so small and white and unexpected in that sea of mud.

It is therefore likely that the combination of an increase in body size associated with the inevitable shift toward a bulk diet led first to the evolution of a grasping hand, then to the appearance of a prehensile hand, and finally to an opposable thumb.

In part, at least, to keep assets away from the grasping hands of the plutocrats.

All, though to different degrees, possess prehensile (grasping) hands and all (except humans) prehensile feet.

He was a big, generous sap in the Joe Louis mold, helpless against grasping hands.

125th over: 453-4 A Trescothick ball escapes the grasping hands of Graeme Smith for another four.

There was a clingy dress of black and white sections that were separated by grasping hands, a little mysterious looking.