Sentence examples for she is grasping from inspiring English sources

But in another shot he has put one steadying arm around her, and she is grasping his hand for support.

In one paw, she is grasping a limp, indeterminate trophy — a pheasant, perhaps — while supporting a rifle with the other.

Now, in better physical shape than earlier in her career, she is grasping a long-awaited opportunity to make an impact on the world stage.

Yes, she is grasping to shards, metaphorical bleeding hands on what she has left.

John immediately understands two things: a) the what of Mary's motor act (she is grasping the cup) and b) the why of Mary's motor act (e.g. she is grasping the cup to drink coffee).

As the Chosen One, Eleonora Abbagnato, first frozen like a petrified animal as she is grasped by Wilfried Romoli as the sacrificial victim, delivered a solo of magnificent power and terror.

She was grasping for guidance: Was that all right?

She was grasping her abdomen, which was swollen and looked like it was going to burst.

I braced myself for it when Maxine's fingers began to twitch, as if she were grasping for an invisible object.

But her wish to say what she sees works at startling cross-purposes with her critic's wish to generalize — it is as if she were grasping both for the high-level wisdom that G. Thomas Couser seeks in all memoir and for the ground-level immediacy that Joseph Conrad sought when he said that he wrote fiction "above all, to make you see".

Her marriage to David Beckham helped by keeping her in the public eye even as her singing career waned, although the idea that she was grasping on to her husband's fame is unfair: Victoria was an integral part of the appeal of Brand Beckham and increased her husband's status just as much as he helped hers.