Sentence examples for had a grip from inspiring English sources

Baseball, perhaps from those early therapeutic sessions, had a grip on her.

For years "Emperor Jones" has had a grip on Mr. O'Reilly's imagination.

She had a grip on my backpack and was concerned that my enthusiasm for snakes had overtaken my judgment.

Tutut, a daughter, had a grip on the toll-roads; Bambang, another son, held the licence for mobile phones.

For decades now, the N.R.A. and the rest of the gun lobby have had a grip on the Republican Party.

"I totally reject the suggestion that we haven't had a grip on this because we've been monitoring the contract carefully.

The feminization of racial stereotyping has had a gripping effect.

In total, 93% of our Swedish women had a grip-strength above the Somali median value of 202 N, a value close to that performed by Swedish women in another study [ 35].

She seems to have a grip.

Do we have a grip on this?

Marxist thinking still has a grip on the collective imagination.