| There's often no handholds where there should be handholds, or guard rails where there should be guard rails. |
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| Despite the eyelocks and handholds and sunsets and stargazing, her relationship with V is muddlingly platonic. |
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| I forced myself up from the bed, gasping and gripping whatever handholds I could find. |
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| We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path. |
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| He slammed his blade into the hull of the tank, using the holes made as handholds. |
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| Going down had been easy, but with no handholds or footholds, coming up was proving to be much harder than I'd expected. |
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| Another is stranded, frustrated, in the middle of the wall, stretching for out-of-reach handholds. |
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| She found two handholds she could reach and a slight indentation under the water offered her a place to put her feet. |
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| They conveniently happened to be in the best places for footholds and handholds. |
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| Lazarus shook his head and sighed, but nevertheless used the handholds and footholds Ghost had made to climb the wall. |
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| And there's something poetic in the way the handful of people, and the dozens of worn, yellow painted handholds resonate in their gentle movements. |
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| There are no handholds, so I bang repeatedly against the roof. |
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| Nobody would want the seats on buses, instead we'd fight for the handholds and the over-head bars, and buses would go past with people swinging like carcasses on meat hooks. |
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| She places her boot on the first foothold, and reaches for the handholds. |
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| Working in microgravity also requires the use of many special tools such as torqueless wrenches, handholds, and foot restraints. |
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| The hillside, lined with a coating of wet leaves ready to toboggan her down the slope, made her grateful for a few saplings that provided handholds. |
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| All rail cars produced after January next year will have to comply with this new standard, which includes upgrades to handholds, ladder treads, sill steps and running boards. |
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| The People's Liberation Army taikonaut used handholds to maneuver along the exterior of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft during China's first extravehicular activity in space. |
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| Handholds became footholds, although the deeper and more sound you made them, the more exhausted you became. |
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