Grasp in a sentence

However, when Roji managed to grasp a staff that had fallen to the floor, he was able to create a beam of power that was strong enough to free them from its grasp.

One was encouraged to think of square circles, curved space, or Escher pictures, to grasp that you couldn't grasp it.

Opposable arguments are as essential to grasp reasoning as opposable thumbs are to grasp other tools vital to human productivity.

Encyclopædia Britannica Allāh exists without place Britannica Encyclopedia, Islam, p. 3 and the Qur'an states that "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision.

Two images from Henri Bergson’s An Introduction to Metaphysics may help one to grasp Bergson's term intuition, the limits of concepts, and the ability of intuition to grasp the absolute.

After all, having a solid grasp of the English language can help you get ahead in life.

After defeating the Second Sister, Cal is met by Vader and stands absolutely no chance and is left having to run and escape his grasp.

Americans think big and grasp for a magical world beyond our own.

And beyond that, Simpson’s script argues, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed for a desperate grasp at happiness, especially given how little we know about Hamlet’s father and his character from the text of “Hamlet” itself.

And we’d like to have the power, but sometimes we don’t really grasp it, do we?

A new proposal will put the well-being of citizens and the economy firmly in the grasp of government bureaucrats.

Aragorn then decides to touch the palantír himself and manages to seize mental ownership of the enchanted stone from Sauron's malevolent grasp.

As the fanbase has tried to keep up with the chaos and grasp this team’s true potential (or lack thereof), the Flyers’ Twitterverse has begun to look as foolish and disjointed as the 5-on-3 power play.

As tough a call as it may be, once the quarterback is in the grasp of a defensive player, even with only a scant possibility of escaping, the referee should immediately blow the whistle, ending the play.

A troubled fan stalks Mima, and the fan only exacerbates Mima's slipping grasp on reality.

Benepe would grasp the fake switch’s bright-red lever and pull it up, as Marsden and a colleague rushed to push buttons on their laptops.

Both also more than prove their grasp of issues key to Edmonds.

Both platformers deliver imaginative levels, colorful characters, and easy-to-grasp gameplay that holds a fair amount of depth for these types of games.

But as the prospect of a second term looms, could it also be true that the notoriously stubborn Trump and his advisers left the White House with a better grasp of Canada's relationship with — and importance to — the United States?

But even among buyers who have a solid grasp of generations and product lineups, there’s a lot of room for error.