Clutches or clenches

Usage examples of grips.

His powerful hands squeezed at the grips as if they were the driver's throat through which bubbles of laughter still burst.

Suilin's guide seized the grips of the right-hand weapon and doubled the car's weight of fire.

His facial muscles were locked in a tight rictus, and he took his fingers momentarily from the tribarrel's grips to massage the numbness out of them.

I don't want you screwing around with the grips when you oughta be holding the controls.

The trooper in the fighting compartment bounced off the coaming before he could brace himself on the grips of two of the tribarrels.

He reached for the grips of his tribarrel, obeying an instinct to hang onto something after he lost his excuse to hold Cooter.

His fingers reached for but did not quite touch the spade grips of the tribarrel.

His powerful hands squeezed at the grips as if they were the driver’s throat through which bubbles of laughter still burst.

Suilin’s guide seized the grips of the right-hand weapon and doubled the car’s weight of fire.

His facial muscles were locked in a tight rictus, and he took his fingers momentarily from the tribarrel’s grips to massage the numbness out of them.

I don’t want you screwing around with the grips when you oughta be holding the controls.

He clung to the grips of his tribarrel as though he'd have fallen without them to hold onto .

He'd jumped to his feet and had the tribarrel's grips in his hands, straining for a target in his faceshield's light-amplified imagery, before his conscious mind took over and he realized why he'd awakened.

Arne Huber took his hands from the tribarrel grips and flexed them cautiously, afraid they'd cramp.

A moment later Learoyd clambered in and seized the grips of his tribarrel.