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Example sentences for: grips

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The reason it is so difficult to come to grips with what Larry says is that his threats are diffuse and often hypothetical.
Our attitudes about serious speeding have yet to come to grips with simple reality.
Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.
If industries stock up on fuel ahead of the New Year or a lengthy cold snap grips the Northeast, some analysts think oil prices could creep above $30 a barrel--a level seen only briefly during the Gulf War.
But there is no excuse for McInnis' just coming to grips with these objections.