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Sentence Examples Piero had no trouble grasping the difference between documentary reality and dramatization. He, thus accoutered, is led from door to door by two attendants who likewise assist in holding up his arms by grasping the staves. In Britain the grasping cheating ratbags use the cheapest possible paper, full of acid, that goes brown and falls apart after a couple of years. These ideas are alluded to in this affable portrait by the angelic baby grasping a toy rattle while being tenderly held by its mother. He reached over and touched her hand, grasping it lightly and not saying a word. Can they proceed without grasping how the great mass upsurge of 1979 brought to power a thoroughly reactionary regime? Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow. This paper is a mini review of kinetic and kinematic evidence on the control of the hand with emphasis on grasping. He reached around me, grasping the horse's reins, and spurred the creature into a gallop. That home address, that singular string of alphanumerics, is an abstract way of grasping space, but not as abstract as global positioning. In another, a grasping mother and daughter are duped out of their upward social climb by an unscrupulous foreigner. In this instance, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that while Meryl makes some good points, she is grasping at straws. I did not know that this covers a grasping avariciousness by the family towards the children. The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers. But then you could spend decades of your life here without fully grasping the complex minutiae of the Malagasy existence. Degas drew Perrot, erect and white-haired, a little thick in the middle, grasping a ballet master's stick for beating time. She marshalled her players before the game against Pannyok, speaking sternly, grasping each by the shoulder. There's no economic theory to explain it, other than the theory that the inhabitants are grasping thieving swine. Yet, unlike so many other releases, rather than focusing on the sweetness and melody of pop music, Massimo seems to be grasping for rock instead. The forefeet have four toes, which are easily manoeuvrable and used for grasping. Show More Sentences After a few more moments of simply staring at the young man she smiled wide, grasping his shoulders and shaking him gently. Like Sally, Atlantic City's Grace is a shrill, unstable aging beauty, grasping at her fading identity as an erstwhile big-timer's widow. Old men, conscious that they are about to leave the good things of the world, are grasping and miserly. In the normal judo competition you face your opponent with your hands grasping the lapels or shoulders of his uniform. James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber. It is done by grasping a small portion of hair and gently applying traction while sliding the fingers along the hair shafts. It was an agile climber, with long hind limbs for leaping, nails on its digits, and a grasping big toe. When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about. The first toe subsequently re-evolved a lower position within birds with the evolution of the grasping hallux. We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path. The machine's arms lifted up, grasping it's head, rock and stone cracking and falling off in large boulders. It portrayed a woman grasping a cross with both hands as she was being rescued from a stormy sea. How odd then, that when it comes to oil so many strategists and politicians seem to find grasping the supply-demand equation so tough. When interventionists resort to that kind of argument, they are grasping at straws. He said he'd strike a committee of independent directors to look into his allegedly grasping behaviour. By grasping this projection, the cellarman could slide the bit back and forth, opening and closing the spigot. In an instant he rushed across the street, and Brigg charged forward to meet him, grasping the hilt of his sword in both hands. Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny. But in fact, the words, symbolism and ideology were a ruse for grasping and holding onto power. She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white. Show More Sentences Their front canine teeth are large and feline, perfect for grasping prey and slashing it open. The chelicarae are medium-sized, with small pincers for grasping food, they are like miniature versions of the large claws of Pterygotus. Then the fledgling sprang upward, pinions grasping the morning wind, and each assured, graceful motion branded itself in Arun's memory. We are equally appalled by this man's behavior, but let me emphasize that he is no grasping, concupiscent villain. It was now a tangle of grasping arms, each with a single yellow bloodshot eye on a seven-fingered palm and upwards of eight leathery bat wings. Bring on your mendacious public relations men, your scheming politicians, your grasping fumblers in greasy tills! In the left corner, a butcher and a blacksmith are each of them grasping a foaming tankard of porter. At first glance the pistol looks like a full-size Caspian widebody with some ports in the slide and lots of grasping grooves fore and aft. The forefeet have four toes, which are easily maneuverable and used for grasping. She easily captures this grasping floozy, with just a curl of her bee-stung lips and her eyes alternately vacant and cunning. The laser proved to work well with narrow grasping tools and scissors to dissect the gall bladder from the liver bed. She was holding a champagne glass, the liquid half gone, and was grasping the doorframe, her mouth in a permanent gape. In short, grasping food objects and small-diameter supports were probably key factors in the development of primate manual prehension. Still firmly grasping Ethan by the arm, Giles propelled him to Melissa's side. Michael quickly fell asleep in his bed, his hand grasping mine which was clutching back frantically. The attitude of the local council is lamentable in not grasping this opportunity with both hands. Fully grasping a concept involves understanding its relationships to other concepts. Still, grasping the nettle like this is probably his only chance, slim though it is. Tackling mental health, grasping the nettle of introducing rights-based legislation will come at a cost. He will continue to privatise whatever he can get his grasping little hands on. Show More Sentences It's a grasping, greedy society, fuelled by educational expectation and privilege. This is a grasping, ambitious woman in the style of Lady Macbeth, who'll readily sacrifice people for her own gain. It rather appears that your job of spiritual adviser is being undermined by your brother, the grasping wretch. Have you never been driven to distraction by a grasping building contractor? We do not need to assume anything as strong as the claim that we are all dedicated, grasping, egoists to see this. Interpretation for Michel is not a question of disinterring the unconscious of the artist but of grasping the unconscious of the work. They feed by grasping the prey, then everting their stomach and secreting primary enzymes on the prey. His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony. This would seem to be a clever way of catching wrong-doers, exploiting the criminal class's essential dishonesty and grasping nature. In one view, grasping ability with nails, and forward facing eyes evolved together to enable the animals to prey on insects found at the base of trees. The play's more engaging theme is found in the moral struggle the characters encounter as they wrestle with the notion of integrity in the face of their grasping egos. He has been transformed from a grasping, selfish, small-time operator into a decent fellow who now plays a game of ludo with the rejuvenated elders. The City in particular has been revealed to be a place of probity and honour whose accountants couldn't be more different from the vulgar and grasping Yanks. We've seen Mitt Romney fly thither and yon grasping at excuses not to release his tax returns. Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a light post, grasping it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can heave it. Their hands, mostly left clasping right, or right clasping left, holding the odd newspaper or the odd trash tabloid, grasping the odd book like a lifeline. It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here! Even the simple task of grasping an object is exponentially more difficult in a pressure suit. The ball fell just out of the reach of the grasping extra cover. She is sensuous, grasping, self-absorbed, fierce, greedy, megalomaniacal, and utterly certain that she is entitled to have her ego, her power, and her way. Show More Sentences Yet financialism can leave voters feeling queasy, and candidates grasping for answers. But there is a big twist in this story that has left both Grace Castro and Lozoya frustrated and grasping for more answers. A grasping and greedy ethos seems to be what grips most of our citizens. And that is the key to grasping how we Americans can and cannot take him seriously as a would-be political messiah. The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us. Hughes is well cast as the sympathetic, Candide-like Simon, an incurable optimist who talks about hopelessness without quite grasping the concept himself. The new parish council is grasping the nettle to deal with vandalism. He beautifully captures the Lord of the Flies cruelty of insecure adolescents grasping for their place on the ladder, mashing the faces of those below them under heel. Heraclitus stresses the inductive rather than the deductive method of grasping the world, a world that is rationally structured, if we can but discern its shape. He hung on to the side of the boat, his hands tightly grasping the rope. We are grasping at hazily remembered phrases in this new language. Grasping vines, like grape, climb by grasping their support with tendrils. He didn't say it didn't work as well as doctors thought it did or as well as patients were suckered into believing it did by the grasping medical establishment. Loopholes come about through the pleading of property owners who dare to suggest that there is merit to keeping private property safe from the grasping hand of power. However, they seem to be desperately grasping at straws in this case. He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude. It's something like their discomfort quotient, or perhaps the way you can see into their grasping for what the right way is to connect with the crowd or a given voter. But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one. The child heard a loud trumpeting and jumped in fright, spinning around to see what it was while clutching the creature tightly, just as it was grasping him. This is at best wishful thinking and grasping at last straws. Show More Sentences We're quiet and then Matt reaches forward, grasping my hands in his. His commanding officer rose to repeat the final briefing, grasping any object that was fixed to the hull, desperately trying not to go tumbling around in zero gee. Her eyes pleaded with him, her hand still firmly grasping his. We surged forward, hearts thumping, ducking to avoid water bombs and grasping hands, until we were disgorged at an open green beneath the city walls. Desperation turned him into a wild man, grasping at futile straws. They may, in the way of families, be primitive, grasping and sadistic. I told her, grasping another bale and heading back to the truck. Camillus differs from Brutus and Scaevola in his energetic and tense posture, his legs apart, his left arm akimbo, and his right hand grasping the banner high up the pole. This suggests a grasping and need for understanding and nominalizes the process of understanding into an object that you own. Once again he leaned forward, his hands grasping the basket-work rim of his chair. I've never met his mother, so I'm grasping at straws for an appropriate gift for her. Hence it was that a few dozen policemen, resolutely grasping the nettle, had no difficulty in handling it. I sighed to Selene in a calm, nonalarming manner as she was grasping for key and padlock in front of the door. However, they were strongly built, with hands adapted for powerful grasping. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish or lumpsucker, which they capture with grasping hooks at the front of their body. The males mount the females' backs, grasping them with their fore limbs under the armpits in a grip that is known as amplexus. Recent studies suggest that Australopithecines still lived part of the time in trees as a result of maintaining a grasping big toe. Humans also have thicker metacarpals with broader heads, allowing more precise grasping than the chimpanzee hand can perform. The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects. He climbed the stairs unsteadily, grasping the banister and gasping for breath. Show More Sentences Thus, grasping this stark reality, I am resigned to a certain amount of disruption as my jalopy splutters through no-go Birmingham. Her grasping children fought over her property when she died. The new Buckmarks have an improved grasping area, and there is now help for the older ones from Striplin Custom Guns called the Slide Racker. They have powerful raptorial forelimbs used for grasping prey during capture and while feeding. Surgeons used a headlight, grasping or biting forceps, and ethmoid curettes. A luger generates momentum by grasping handles on either side of the track, rocking forward and backward, and then giving a powerful push. Upon extrusion, eggs were removed from the pleopods by grasping the top of the pleopod with forceps and scraping the eggs from the pleopod. Wright was more successful at penetrating the thought processes of Al Qaeda than he is at seriously grasping whatever Scientology has to offer. Carefully transfer ramekins to wire rack, using tongs or grasping tops of ramekins with potholder. The Book Cradle is a bookholder and bookstand designed for use by individuals with grasping or upper extremity disabilities or arthritis. After a first go through, they appear to be grasping for what to do next. All have failed at grasping its themes, ironies, and allusions. Now we've compiled them into the full colour sorcerous supplement you are currently grasping in your claws. Aggressive interactions were characterized by the extension of both chelipeds, and cheliped embracing or grasping. Damage from a grasping volsellum or tenaculum to the anterior lip or forcible expansion with Hegar dilators to the cervical canal can be reduced by pre-operative preparation. Tom sprang to the position which had been occupied by the spokesman of the party, and grasping the foresheet and the tiller of the boat, he soon brought her up to the wind. Misfortunately, the hurly-burly world, all jostling shoulders and grasping hands, has a way of gatecrashing even the most jealously guarded of sanctuaries. Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there. Hitting a downed fighter and grasping below the waist were prohibited. That Tony Blair should wait until the dying days of his premiership before grasping the nettle of nuclear expansion has proved dangerously neglectful. Show More Sentences There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages. Ms Butler, then 18 years old, was captured in a cheeky pose walking away from the camera, with her right hand grasping a tennis racquet and her left resting on her backside. Examples from Classical Literature Some of the cilia are used for running or swimming, others for grasping or touching, and so on. The colonel, grasping his gold piece still in his hand, sat staring at him. At first he was angry, as he accused her of being mean-spirited and grasping. He flung out a hand with the plausible design of grasping Kirkwood by the collar. They prevented them from growing hard, grasping, and discontented with their lot. He sustained himself by grasping a bush of blaeberry plants, and he dug his toes into the soft black peat. An ungulate is essentially a running animal, and has no need of a grasping finger. Art thou not ashamed to be seen grasping this limber sapling, in preference to the sceptre of the pre-Adamite sultans? There is a good deal of pain, the grasping power of the hand is impaired, and dorsiflexion is considerably restricted. Then grasping the rapper, the Major lifted it and rapped hard several times. The lay reader of philosophy is chiefly, if not wholly, interested in grasping a philosophic point of view. Anina nosed its bow into this doorway, and grasping one of the pilings near at hand, brought it to rest. His great hands lay upon his lap, palms upward, taloned fingers spread and grasping. The eye is fixed by grasping the conjunctiva close to the limbus downwards and inwards. This danger is avoided by raising the point of the lithotrite immediately after grasping the stone and before crushing. She straightened, and grasping Sarka by the hand, hurried with him into the observatory. The crest, a sinister arm in armour, grasping a broken lance, on a torse of the colours. The boon I crave is that you will place it in my hands and let me die still grasping it. Renouard, his hand grasping the back of a chair, stared down at him dumbly. The broad, straight, unenticing gashes of the streets let in the grasping prairie on every side. Show More Sentences Both drop their bridle-reins, grasping the repeating, long-range weapons. It has thus the power of grasping a tree which no other mammal possesses. McGovern reached out, but he was short of grasping the friendly help. Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount. For two mortal hours he sat grasping his gun, with never a chirrup. She walked to the window, convulsively grasping her pocket-handkerchief. It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable. Another, grasping a sharp knife with her three-toed fore foot, was laying open the victim's chest and abdomen. A lot of big questions need to be ironed out, but grasping lottery money for Bankside has really paid off. We are schooled now, both of us, to know that grasping brings not gain. But the captain, silent, leaned a little forward grasping the door handle. Seeing a roadhog idiot grasping one of those and shouting in frustration at being unable to cause mayhem would make my day. A future of rudderless roaming the nightclubs of west London pursued by a succession of grasping hangers-on awaited him. The grasping portion of it could only encircle the tiniest twigs. Yet where there are challenges, there are matching opportunities and the tape industry has never been shy about grasping the brass ring. Instead of grasping the tin, my fingers closed on a sticky, gluey mass. He hurried past and left Elim grasping the handrail of the stair. Humans are a land-dwelling species with a large body, grasping hands, spatulate fingers, and an upright gait. Behind the spin, David Cameron is as much a member of the grasping Tory squirearchy as any MP with a moat. The Hebrew letter for this card is kaph, which typifies a grasping hand. Show More Sentences Silently, but with the quickness of a tigress the old woman was upon her back, one clawlike paw grasping the wrist which held the dagger. Claire was looking after the stud merchant, as, grasping his wealth, he scuttled up the avenue. In front of me I saw Craig grasping Mrs. popper's wrists as in a vise. Margery started in by grasping the racquet firmly in both hands. So, grasping her umbrella by its ferrule, she leant over the area and tapped at the dining-room window. I use the flexible cystoscope and grasping forceps to overcome this problem. So, grasping the rough protuberances of the rock, he tugged and toiled amain, and got himself quite out of breath, without being able to stir the heavy stone. A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air. I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes. How I had a grasping, avaricious wish to shut out everybody from her but myself, and to be all in all to her, at that unseasonable time of all times. It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things. He was still grotesquely grasping a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley. And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of grasping? Words that rhyme with grasping What is the plural of grasping? What is the adverb for grasping? What is the adjective for grasping? What is the noun for grasping? Translations for grasping Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words grasper grasped graspable GRASP grasp GRAS graspingly graspingness grasps grass Grass grassbird 8-letter Words Starting With g gr gra gras grasp graspi graspin