grip

As with all Sphere acts, that visual wattage can absolutely grip you, or it can feel using a flamethrower to grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But grip strength can vary considerably depending on someone’s age, sex and body size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Right now, iPhone users tend to pull out their iPhones for much of what they want to do technologically, but now there’s pressure on Apple to maintain that grip.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The median grip strength for a 50-year-old man is about 48 kilograms or 100 pounds, while a woman’s is about 29 kilograms or 64 pounds, studies show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Her grip was strong as she pulled my hand toward her and wrapped it with a cloth.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Now two years on from their original commitment, the pair have managed a six-turn practice run to get to grips with the rules before jumping into the full game, which is 111 turns.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

They’re trying to come to grips with the new reality when they both fall into a sinkhole and wake up in Nakali.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Regulators are trying to come to grips with this underground system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The two largest reservoirs in the United States have fallen to record lows as a severe drought grips the country's West, according to data released over the weekend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

A sick feeling grips my stomach and twists.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

Italie gripped his seat and tightened his seatbelt, wondering if there was a problem with the plane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The historic $110 billion Hollywood tie-up comes as a powerful selloff in long-dated Treasurys has gripped financial markets, pushing up benchmark yields to their highest levels since 2002.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

He gripped the controls and expected the engine to give out at any second, until he spotted a parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

She squirmed and gripped my arm, trying to kick the disgusting thing away.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

He leapt into the water, That rover young and bold; He gript Earl Haldan's daughter, He shore her locks of gold; 'Go weep, go weep, proud maiden, The tale is full to-day.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

Well, altogether gript by the being of love.

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

And first gaed by the black black steed, And then gaed by the brown; 205 But fast she gript the milk-white steed, And pu'd the rider down.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various

And he came half over the edge, and gript the Diskos by the handle, in an instant.

From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

As Xi descended the stairs from his plane at Joint Base Andrews, he reached for Peng with one hand while gripping the rail with the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

If the drama is oversimplified, it nonetheless makes for a gripping spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

However, temperatures will be lower than at the weekend when a southerly wind pulled in warm air from a heatwave gripping central and southern Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Stocks stumbled out of the gate after Labor Day, with a jittery tone gripping markets as the typically weak month of September began in earnest after the holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

She looked at me with that almost-pleading expression again, like I was the answer to an unspoken question, before gripping her staff and stalking to the exit.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia