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Example sentences for: grip

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

But his grip on power, the paper reports, may be fragile: Wahid is frail and almost totally blind.
Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
Gal-GRIP1 NR box (1,2,3) fusion (amino acids 610-770) was prepared by PCR amplification of the appropriate region of GRIP1 (primers obtained from Biomolecular Resource Center, UCSF) containing EcoRI and SalI sites, the PCR fragment was digested with these enzymes and subcloned into the pM GAL4 expression vector (Clontech Laboratories, Inc.
This way, we could easily grip the coins while putting the extra bills away into our wallets, and then drop the coins into our pockets or coin purses.
Results: No grip of Jiang's bicep during handshake, but the leader of the free world did cop some elbow and back.