Sentence examples for grips of something from inspiring English sources

How many people see it as dehumanizing when we are in the grips of something we cannot comprehend?

At that moment Britain felt in the grip of something that it hadn't experienced before.

Do try to get a grip of something other than your self-obsession.

I always wanted my life to be a comedy, now I feel in the grip of something inexorable.

My response to this happiness, naturally, was to worry that I was in the grip of something diseased and wrong.

Taken together, those signs suggested that he could be in the grip of something more worrisome than a stomach virus.

These days, El Salvador, he argued, is in the grip of something terrible, something frightening and lawless, and it's natural for people to be outraged.

As I stand on my balcony and look down at this corner of downtown Tokyo, blazing with light, I, too, feel in the grip of something that is beyond me.

He was in the grip of something else — a profound and far more troubling meltdown that comes not in childhood but in midlife, when we perceive that our personal trajectory is no longer arcing reliably upward as it once did.

In the grip of something like lapsarian fever, people buy natural cigarettes presumably to be sure that when the cancer comes, it wasn't caused by any horrible chemical additives.

Among Baldasare's travails is the heat; his failed farm is in a valley "held in the grip of something stupendous, a blast of air so sere and scorching you would have thought the whole world was a pizza oven with the door open wide".