Sentence examples for grip about from inspiring English sources

Ever since President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe began to tighten his grip about three years ago on the mines in Marange, where security forces and companies with ties to him are mining at least hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stones, the illicit diamond business here has all but dried up.

It will give you a good grip about how we make decisions and what are the common biases we fall into.

Got a better grip about the motive behind the effigies around UC Berkeley.

Ray: If you're not comfortable in the kitchen, first thing to do, get a firm grip about whatever your chopping, curl your fingers under so they don't call you lefty.

Standing calf stretch: Stand on a flat surface wearing shoes with a firm grip, about 2 to 3 feet (.61 to.91 m) in front of a wall.

Yet there's something deeply gripping about it, this emanation from elsewhere.

Everything is a wound in Ms. Schutz's art, especially the comedy; this is what's gripping about it.

Though there is a place at the Met, of course, for traditional productions, there is nothing particularly gripping about Mr. Grandage's work here.

What's gripping about the index – a basket of 40 goods and services targeting the super-rich – is the detail of what's on it.

92) Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard There is something compulsively gripping about the completism of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series of fictionalised memoirs.

Once you get used to the controls and start working through the story you do start to get intrigued – if not gripped – about what may happen next.