Sentence examples for we grasped from inspiring English sources

"We grasped at a straw and missed," Milbury said.

We grasped the secret of that moment and it was and it was enough.

As Abraham Lincoln stated, "We could not secure the good we did secure if we grasped for more".

The argument that if we grasped how to control the climate then evildoers would already be doing it doesn't hold water with conspiratorial thought, however.

"It was a cool Autumn evening and the terraces stank of cigarette smoke as we grasped our plastic cups filled with steaming hot Horlicks.

Perhaps we grasped even then that with a change of heart, the fiercest of opponents could be the best of friends".

We grasped at the rare appearances of actors of colour – we loved badasses including Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars (cape!), Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction (guns!), and Tina Turner in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (wig!).

Invariably attired in a black or brown Mao suit, always composed, his manners impeccable, this implacable revolutionary "was of the stuff of which heroes are made," Kissinger writes, and in a typically shrewd insight he observes: "What we grasped only with reluctance -- and many at home never understood -- is that only in epic poems are heroes humanly attractive.

"When the chance to get him came we grasped it.

We matured in the mobile space just when everyone was talking "MobileFirst," and we grasped the significance of SaaS apps for the CMO just as the market was shifting toward cloud-based offerings.

The President was as surprised as everyone else, as we grasped from the dramatic photograph of him taken as he was given the dreadful news at an elementary school.