Sentence examples for in a grip from inspiring English sources

I felt like I was being held in a grip, or like I was in a bag or something.

And now Don Epstein, cradling her hands in a grip that she couldn't imagine breaking, was sobbing.

The trees of Angkor tower over the great temples, their roots twisting and crushing them in a grip more powerful than stone.

Individual finger force (FF) in a grip task is a vital concern in rehabilitation engineering and precise control of manipulators because disorders in any of the fingers will affect the stability or accuracy of the grip force (GF).

The normally staid state of New Hampshire appeared to be in a grip of Obamamania after his win in the Iowa caucuses last week and his inspirational televised victory speech.

Nor should it have been able to fist her hair in a grip so tight her scalp puckered or stuff an appendage into her mouth to block her scream.

In a gripping piece from his 1976 collection of essays, "Controversy," Manchester described what happened next.

Then it was Longden against Bobby Ussery in a gripping duel, which Longden won by a nose.

So wrote Lewis Kaplan, an American federal judge, in a gripping, John Grisham-esque 485-page verdict on March 4th.

In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky's piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying.

Gordievsky has told the story of his own improbable survival in a gripping 1995 memoir, Next Stop Execution.