Sentence examples for gripped by something from inspiring English sources
The nation finds itself gripped by something of a red revival these days.
Now I was gripped by something new — a dreadful array of feelings.
Most people would be nervous, but Talbot is gripped by something more chilling.
Rose Fletcher, from the website I was gripped by something (I can't quite explain what) in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, an update of the post-college New York novel.
A colleague of Morris said: "Its target is ideology, and what happens when people are gripped by something that they have debased and abstracted to the point of insanity.
In his short story "The Old Teacher," published in 1943 as the mass killings were still under way and before the world comprehended their extent, Grossman draws a vivid portrait of Koryako's unnamed town on the eve of genocide as it "lay stifling, gripped by something foul and dark.
It gave him a kind of relief, as if without knowing it he'd been gripped by the fear of something worse.
"State Department functionaries are oftentimes gripped by a fear of doing something wrong," the aide said.
They were gripped by the need to do something about guns.
Like many critics today, he is gripped by a regrettable need to say something about the internet.
Along the way, he is gripped by "an intense conviction that India had something to give me that I had to have" and finds peace at the ashram of Sri Ganesha, a Hindu saint.
