Example sentences for: grasped

How can you use “grasped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Only when we have grasped the full extent of the Freudian intellectual fiasco--it is adumbrated in my book but exhaustively explored in Malcolm Macmillan's Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc (1997)--will we be able to talk about motives with an adequate respect for their actual variety and volatility.

  • Characters register information with the tiniest of gestures--all Edie Falco has to do is not move her facial muscles when her priest and would-be lover lets something slip that suggests he may be toying with her, and we know that Carmela Soprano just grasped something important.

  • I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.

  • "He grasped my hands firmly," she writes.

  • These are points too subtle to be readily grasped.


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