Seize and hold firmly

Usage examples of grasp.

Smiling at her half-hearted invitation, Adonis grasped a bar in each hand and pried them apart.

Before she could do more than gasp in surprise, Adonis grasped her ankles and yanked her toward him, burying his mouth on her mound.

She was happy enough, to put my poor results down to my inability to grasp the subtlety of the Afrikaans language as well as being the youngest in class, whereas I already spoke Zulu and Shangaan and, like most small kids, found learning a new language simple enough.

It is no mere silliness, but a genuine effort of an early mind, which had just grasped the fact of the antipodes, to use it in explanation.

Only the bizarre antisexual psychology of liberals could fail to grasp the insanity of treating gender like race.

The junior lieutenant quickly moved away from the scope, and Krakov grasped the horizontal periscope grips somehow reassured by the feel of the antiskid etching on the cylindrical grips.

Hal grasped the glass Antonio offered and swirled the brandy in a slow circle.

He grasped hold of her finger, his mouth working as though he nursed even in his dreams.

Grasp the bar, out in the long swooping dive, tension in shoulder muscles as he swung up and over the bar, backswing, playing with it, diving, the long tumbling sense of free flight.

Their talons stretched and retracted, grasping the cookie fortunes that Balboa fed to them.

On its back the other beast bore a black warrior, plumed and befurred, grasping the reins in one hand and a feather-tufted spear in the other.

The Beothuk had never grasped the European concept of private property, so they were deemed to be a nation of thieves.

They were biaxially symmetric, possessing of a single cluster of sense organs mounted on a short, movable stalk, with two each grasping and locomotive appendages emanating from a thick torso.

When Birdy spoke aloud, his voice indicated that he did not grasp what Pug Hoffler had in mind.

Now at last it seemed as if Bithynia might fall into his grasp, for a year before, Socrates had come bleating to beg for asylum in Pontus, and had turned himself so thoroughly into a Mithridatic creature that the King decided he might safely be installed upon the Bithynian throne as a measure preliminary to outright invasion.