Example Sentences
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Climbing enthusiast magazine Gripped identified the woman as Bailee Mulholland.
From Washington Times • Jul. 11, 2023
Gripped by scandal in the summer of 2018, CBS came up with a way to contain the crisis.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2021
The best story so far is “Ivy Gripped the Steps.”
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020
Gripped by panic, he started shouting at security to lock down the complex - his whole body snapping into what he calls "action-on" mode.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2017
Gripped by a split second of fear, realizing the only thing supporting me was the water, I’d start paddling madly to get somewhere, anywhere that didn’t give me this strange feeling of falling-but-not-falling.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
