"grip" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He appeared to be thinking otherwise, as he made a vain attempt to remove the clinging grip of the two men-at-arms who had attached themselves to him.
- Perched aloft beside Jeffries, a cloak was little protection against the driving rain; still less was it a help when he was forced to dismount-as he did every few minutes, it seemed-and put his shoulder to the wheel to free the miserable contrivance from the clinging grip of a mudhole.
- She pulled herself free of the girl Emily's clinging grip.
- Lunzie hated the daily effort to worm her way into a clean pressure garment, the intimate adjustments necessary for bodily functions, the clinging grip that made her feel trapped all the time.
- Claude pulled the axe out of him the way a good woodsman will pull his axe out of a softwood tree, kind of rocking it back and forth to loosen the clinging grip of the sappy wood.
- We seem powerless to protect ourselves and those we love from its clinging and relentless grip.
- Before Sam could get a hold, long legs and arms were wound round him pinning his arms, and a clinging grip, soft but horribly strong, was squeezing him like slowly tightening cords; clammy fingers were feeling for his throat.
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