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Gripped in a sentence
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Gripped meaning
simple past and past participle of grip
Using Gripped
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of grip
- In the example corpus, gripped often appears in combinations such as: gripped the, gripped by, has gripped.
Context around Gripped
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gripped
- In this selection, "gripped" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, things, entirely, audiences and israel stand out and add context to how "gripped" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2022 has gripped the refugee and and fear gripped us all. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gripped" sits close to words such as alt, banda and belmont, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gripped
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All of these things gripped in their hands. (8 words)
An hour later, gripped by a deadly food coma, you’d regret it. (13 words)
Immense, twisty true-life storytelling that keeps everyone gripped without descending into grimness. (13 words)
But since Oct. 7, the acrimonious polarization that had gripped Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to weaken the country’s courts has largely been replaced with an outburst of national unity. (34 words)
Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was found guilty Thursday of killing his wife and adult son in a 2021 double-murder, a more than five-week trial that gripped the nation’s attention. (34 words)
If you saw people or cars lined up to receive free groceries, I bet you’d think the images were from the early days of the pandemic, when uncertainty and fear gripped us all. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Like Hubert Green did years before, Garcia would stand over the ball and wobble the head of his club as he gripped and re-gripped it repeatedly before eventually swinging away.
Across the country chaos has gripped this vast oil rich North African nation that has natural riches to rival the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
All of these things gripped in their hands.
An hour later, gripped by a deadly food coma, you’d regret it.
Anne was entirely gripped by her daughter's performance and was seen holding a crook, which is used for herding sheep.
An ongoing cholera outbreak, declared at the end of October 2022, has gripped the refugee camps as well as communities in Garissa and Wajir counties.
As we round the bend into the fall and look toward the winter, our state finds itself still gripped by a homelessness crisis deeper and more widespread than ever before.
Businesses a stone's throw from Town's Kenilworth Road ground are gripped by play-off fever.
But since Oct. 7, the acrimonious polarization that had gripped Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to weaken the country’s courts has largely been replaced with an outburst of national unity.
Dark, gritty and real, is a Canadian-produced film that will keep audiences gripped from start to finish.
Egypt has been gripped by economic crisis for years, a situation exacerbated by the war in Ukraine which has severely affected food prices in the country.
Expert eyes are starting to turn to Christmas 2023, as has kept the lights on through this festive period despite an energy crisis that has gripped the continent for more than a year.
Extreme temperatures have also gripped other parts of the globe including the US and China.
Fashioned after an American diner, this joint has been dishing up old school burgers with none of that smashed burger nonsense that has firmly gripped the capital.
Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was found guilty Thursday of killing his wife and adult son in a 2021 double-murder, a more than five-week trial that gripped the nation’s attention.
From the 2019 presidential election until after the coup, Saied’s sweet talk gripped the public’s imagination and kept citizens dreaming of a better future.
He later admitted in court that he knew the gun was fully loaded as soon as he gripped it.
He may lie as much as he likes on what informed the madness that gripped him that day, but the truth, as it always does, will eventually reveal itself.
If you saw people or cars lined up to receive free groceries, I bet you’d think the images were from the early days of the pandemic, when uncertainty and fear gripped us all.
Immense, twisty true-life storytelling that keeps everyone gripped without descending into grimness.
Common combinations with gripped
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gripped the 62×
- gripped by 55×
- has gripped 34×
- been gripped 13×
- that gripped 12×
- is gripped 11×
- gripped and 8×
- was gripped 7×
- gripped in 6×
- are gripped 6×