Sentence examples for tightly gripped from inspiring English sources

The students tightly gripped their handlebars and silently tried to follow.

In her left hand, she later said, she tightly gripped her rainbow headscarf.

After several paper rounds the funds were finally there, tightly gripped in my young fist.

How ironic that an agenda based on letting go is being so tightly gripped by a single over-controlling individual.

Under a civil defense tent, Sabrina de Carvalho, 27, tightly gripped the hand of a friend as rescue workers tried to keep her calm.

And then, before taking their seats to eat, they tightly gripped one another's hands Thursday to pray in thanks for what they had.

The pope, tightly gripping the white handrail in his bulletproof encasement, blessed the crowd to roars of approval.

He'd been right there in front of me, tightly gripping his umbrella, speaking quietly, posing a strange question, and then he'd left.

A child who laughed her first laugh, who took her first step, who held the hands of her parents as babies do, tiny hands tightly gripping a finger.

Mr. Amini said he saw police officers running, too, tightly gripping their own AK-47s as they raced away from the gunmen.

The fish tapeworm — a beast, stubborn as a dog with a beef bone — is reluctant to move, tightly gripping the wall of the small intestine with its two suction cups.