Example Sentences

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Nok had been grasping for that light her whole life.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

It was while she sat there that the flower, which she had been grasping in her hand, suddenly withered.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

When he held them up to his face he saw that they were scratched and bruised—and the veins were swollen as though he had been grasping hard at something for a long time.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

She stopped with a shudder, and held out a paper that she had been grasping; it was crumpled by the tightening of her fingers over it.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 by Various

The thin right hand lay partly closed, as if it had been grasping a larger hand.

From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George