Example sentences for: grasped

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

  • He had grasped the principle of erosion more completely than Georges Cuvier.

  • (I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)

  • As you can see, the statement is Franks' own, based on what the president's friends "told me," a point that seemed to be fully grasped by a reporter who asked about it at the Aug. 2. White House briefing.

  • 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.

  • According to the papers, the ensuing discussion by committee members sometimes grasped for the imprimatur of Watergate.


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