GRAPPLE in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for GRAPPLE, such as:
1. He can grapple with the burglar and overpowered him.
2. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
3. They encountered, grappled, and fell to the earth together.
4. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
5. It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with.
2. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
3. They encountered, grappled, and fell to the earth together.
4. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
5. It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GRAPPLE
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grapple
v. wrestle; come to grips with; seize firmly, as with the hands
Classic Sentence:
1 Fortunately he missed the aim; and on my approaching to grapple with him, took to his heels and ran for it.
2 We are going to grapple for the bucket at six o'clock tonight at her house, and you could lend a hand.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3 He went away on the word, leaving me with a new mystery to think of, a new puzzle to grapple with.
4 If this fool who was grappling for her hand would only keep quiet for a moment, perhaps she could hear what they were saying.
5 In a few hours the great questions with which the Anglo-Saxon race had been grappling for centuries had been thrown upon these people to be solved.
6 It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with.
7 Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence.
8 They encountered, grappled, and fell to the earth together.
9 Mr. Rochester flung me behind him: the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled.
10 I took a breathing space, set my teeth, and again grappled fiercely, wrist and knee, with the machine.
Example Sentence:
1 He can grapple with the burglar and overpowered him.
2 The police warned the public that it would be dangerous to grapple with the wanted man, as he was armed.
3 The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
4 Passers-by grappled with the man after the attack.
5 They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
6 Mexico has captured the country's most wanted drug lord still at large, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, police said on Friday, in a boost for President Enrique Pena Nieto as he grapples with grisly gang violence.