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Grasped is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Grasped meaning

simple past and past participle of grasp

Using Grasped

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of grasp
  • In the example corpus, grasped often appears in combinations such as: grasped the, be grasped, grasped by.

Context around Grasped

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Grasped

  • In this selection, "grasped" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, brain, truly and fully stand out and add context to how "grasped" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include to be grasped and and often grasped the hands. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "grasped" sits close to words such as abbotsford, adkins and adventist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with grasped

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

A few lawmakers have already grasped this reality, including Reps. (10 words)

Got his chance after Dan McStay’s injury, but never truly grasped it. (13 words)

That’s not next year,” he said, adding that consumers may not have fully grasped this yet. (17 words)

It's a real positive to think we've done a lot of good things this year, the experiences of certain players in a new environment and how they've grasped that and how much they'll be better for it next year. (43 words)

As soon as my still-forming seven-year-old brain grasped the structural dynamics of a chopped pork barm, you could find me smearing pillowy pre-sliced rolls with hot pink mystery meat and unnervingly generous swipes of. (38 words)

And yet they all grasped the interdependent logic of naval and land operations and strategy, and they all held capital ships in high regard as the chief repository of bluewater sea power. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

The later Yogacara commentator Sthiramati explains this thus: "There is a grasper if there is something to be grasped, but not in the absence of what is to be grasped.

Where there is no thing to be grasped, the absence of a grasper also follows, there is not just the absence of the thing to be grasped.

A few lawmakers have already grasped this reality, including Reps.

As soon as my still-forming seven-year-old brain grasped the structural dynamics of a chopped pork barm, you could find me smearing pillowy pre-sliced rolls with hot pink mystery meat and unnervingly generous swipes of.

Based on their words and actions since McCarthy lost the speakership, the so-called moderates still haven’t grasped the reality of the situation.

But I hadn’t grasped how hearing the likes of Ms Dynamite, who sounded and looked like me, allowed me to internalise the idea that voice was worth listening to.

Got his chance after Dan McStay’s injury, but never truly grasped it.

I believe that the Spirit is now creating a welcome opportunity for change – an opportunity which has been grasped by Pope Francis.

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That’s not next year,” he said, adding that consumers may not have fully grasped this yet.

While I knew some of the well-trodden tropes and had caught brief snippets of media coverage on this issue, there is no way I grasped the scale of the problem.

America would not run out of frontier until 1890, but a half century earlier Ralph Waldo Emerson grasped the underlying problem.

But the important thing is that, with those two opportunities, I really grasped them with both hands and made the most of them.

He has clearly grasped the need to shore up Ukraine’s support in the global south, where Russia has made headway, and Kyiv is venturing further afield of the Security Council.

If a student has not grasped these concepts by then, chances are they never will—a stark issue crying out for innovative thinking.

I may have found my rainbow after the rain, but a rainbow is only a fleeting moment; only a reflection, and cannot be grasped by reality.

It's a real positive to think we've done a lot of good things this year, the experiences of certain players in a new environment and how they've grasped that and how much they'll be better for it next year.

Many could not hold back their tears and often grasped the hands of fellow hostage family members.

She was brought up bilingual in Jackson Heights, Queens, yet she feels she never quite grasped a “knowledge of either language on an academic level”.

And yet they all grasped the interdependent logic of naval and land operations and strategy, and they all held capital ships in high regard as the chief repository of bluewater sea power.

But ideology of all stripes is up for grabs right now, a fact our resurgent social conservative friends grasped more quickly than the rest of us.

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Common combinations with grasped

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "grasped" in a sentence?
An example: "The later Yogacara commentator Sthiramati explains this thus: "There is a grasper if there is something to be grasped, but not in the absence of what is to be grasped." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "grasped" from authentic English texts.
What does "grasped" mean?
Grasped means: simple past and past participle of grasp
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