Sentence examples for we were gripped from inspiring English sources

To a man, we were gripped.

We were gripped by the first series of Homeland, Alex, but didn't you also find it annoying?

As the temperature rose, we were gripped by a giddiness that found expression in acts of spontaneity.

The share of opinion polls given to "others" is at an all-time high; it is not long since we were gripped by panic about the BNP.

It's very easy in the calm of day now, but we were gripped with night after night of disorder, and it was serious.

Watching television in 1937 Hall, we were gripped and confounded by the horrific scenes that unfolded in the ensuing hours, which are forever etched in my ­memory — as I am sure they are for countless others.

"There were a few inspirational plays in that last couple of minutes to peg it back to 11 but we were gripping pretty tightly".

It's no surprise we're gripped with election anxiety.

We keep reading because we're gripped, but also to make sure he's OK.

We are gripped by a crisis, and it's the worst kind: it's invisible.

We are gripped by a new puritanism, as finger-wagging in its way as Cromwell's.