Sentence Examples

1. Their flames stretched toward the ceiling, fingers of heat twisting and grasping upwards.
2. She clutched at the back of his head, grasping his wet hair.
3. He returned his gaze, weighing her up soothingly, almost caressingly, before grasping the whip and striking it true and hard.
4. Mechanical arms protruded from the ground beside the paths, grasping rush lights to ward off the gloom.
5. He rolled off the bench to land cat-like on his feet, then stood up slowly, grasping the edge of the bench for support while he regained his sense of balance.
6. He pushed me against the wall with his body, one hand caressing my face, the other grasping my head and tugging on my hair.
7. Despite my uncanny knack for grasping anything mechanical and Nana D always calling me brilliant, I was entirely too doubtful of this mode of transportation.
8. Grasping her neck he exerted enough pressure to hold her down before lifting a pen-knife from his jacket pocket and slitting the rope around her wrists.
9. Grasping a mustard yellow purse, the little old lady at the front of the line tapped her walking cane against the flat weave carpet.
10. Tearing himself from it, he stared instead at the white trembling fingers grasping his whip.