This was primal and instinctual and it gripped me like an invisible claw.
The man, gripped by curiosity, drills a hole to discover what the pipe carries.
Reinhart & Rogoff were not gripped by the pseudo-science-economics that has ensnared so many on the right.
Or are they gripped by some kind of apocalyptic delusion, some dream of messianism achieved by global destruction?
It also helps explain why so many companies in turnaround situations are gripped by inertia.
He gripped her wrists and pulled the bag roughly from her hand.
The Portuguese smiled sheepishly, walked to the wall and gripped the handle.
Heldon Foyle put his whistle between his teeth and gripped the heavy chair with both hands.
Then he gripped the handle, and, flinging the door open, stepped in.
The work is gripped by the jaws J which can be moved in or out to accommodate various diameters.
Old English grippan "to grip, seize, obtain" (class I strong verb; past tense grap, past participle gripen), from West Germanic *gripjan (cf. Old High German gripfen "to rob," Old English gripan "to seize;" see gripe). Related: Gripped; gripping. French gripper "to seize," griffe "claw" are Germanic loan-words.
fusion of Old English gripe "grasp, clutch" and gripa "handful, sheaf" (see grip (v.)). Meaning "stage hand" is from 1888, from their work shifting scenery.
[second sense a shortening of gripsack]