Sentence examples for gripped at from inspiring English sources
"gripped at" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a sensation of tightly grasping or clutching something. For example, "He gripped at the edge of the table in an effort to steady himself."
I was gripped at times by a powerful desire to hurl my camera into the sea.
The sheet was then gripped at the edges by nonchilling asbestos rollers and pulled farther up the draw tower.
Several large flakes or chips were knocked off the rock to create on it a sharp and roughly serrated crest, or ridge, yielding an implement that was edged at one end and could be gripped at the opposite end.
Then the baby — like a fish gripped at its head and foot — was lifted up into the altar's bright spotlight so that all of us in the congregation could see his shining pink flesh.
At the time of the switch in 1989, police officials said that the nightstick, which is simply gripped at one end, lent itself to downward blows and could more easily lead to an accidental strike to the head.
The position was known as an arm bar, and it called for an arm (mine) to be gripped at the wrist by a pair of hands (the big guy's) and then pulled slowly down over a fulcrum (the big guy's pelvic bone) so the arm bent counter to nature much like the blade of a pocketknife bending too far back against its hinge.
But his playing was still more gripping at the opposite extreme.
And yet in its uncomfortable way this is a gripping, at times funny, often rather beautiful book.
His narrative, so gripping at best, can run worryingly low on fuel; and his striving for profundity becomes a little wearying.
But there is now a little more interest in events at this Norwegian university town, where pitch darkness currently grips at lunchtime.
For us, the stress of war was as much professional as profound, the fear of failing as gripping at times as the fear of getting hurt.
