grips

Synonyms

clutch traction grapple stranglehold clench handgrip hairgrip bobby pin travelling bag

Phrases with the word

at grips gas grips coming to grips with gets to grips with something get at grips came to grips

Examples

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial. John Ashcroft

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate. Vladimir Putin

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. Gustav Stresemann

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. Johnny Miller

Ane beats the bush, and anither grips the bird. Scottish Proverb

Silence grips the mouse. Scottish Proverb