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Usage examples of get a grip.

He paused, rocking back and forth on his narrow prison cot, trying to get a grip on the short hair of his scalp, which was still bandaged, so he could pull it.

For the moment, we must concentrate on matters we can get a grip on.

He was apparently too small to get a grip on the hand support and was using Alex’.

The poison it had drunk from Angle's veins would not allow it to get a grip or maintain balance.

She put a hand up, her fingers scrabbling at the doorframe, but she could not get a grip, and her feet were sliding on the wet marble floor.

So she took care of that, too, and came out of the bathroom no less bedraggled in appearance but beginning to get a grip on her spirit.

He reached the overhang of the roof and had to lean out to get a grip on the rim of the guttering, then he kicked his feet clear and hung from his arms.

The animal fluttered above Falstad's head, trying, it seemed, to get a grip on its master.

The slime and moss that covered the scree was soft and slippery underfoot, making it hard to get a grip on the rocks.

I wasn't old enough then to really get a grip on any of the theory, but it strikes me now that although the boxes and circuits are working, it's the stuff that makes it all work—.

Hun and Krysty, her overalls sodden with Abe's blood, arrived to help, but there was not enough room for them to get a grip.

But the flesh was too slippery, and he couldn't get a grip on the tattered rags of meat.