tight grasp

It was asleep, but its erect posture, like that of a sentinel of hell, its eyes, which even shut seemed to stare, the tight grasp of its talons on the bough, and the bloody sunset in the sky behind it, filled poor Abel with wintry dread.

In a picture he posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, Tamimi sits handcuffed on a bed, the tight grasp of an armed Israeli soldier hidden by her unruly mane.

This pseudothumb comes in handy — pandas need a tight grasp as they gnaw at rigid bamboo.

Google maintains a tight grasp over each of the many steps between an advertiser looking to place an ad and a website looking to host it.

Monroe fled Hollywood to New York and would go on to live with Greene's family in Connecticut as they hatched a plan to help her escape her film studio's tight grasp.