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Grasp in sentence

492 examples of Grasp in a sentence

It's hard to grasp, but it's an incredible fact.
And I began to grasp why it's said that the Koran is really the Koran only in Arabic.
Now looking at these images, it's difficult to grasp the scale of this operation, which can already be seen from space and could grow to an area the size of England.
This is not beyond the grasp of ordinary people.
We have this ability to make things, to grasp things with our hands.
But I think, actually, the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word "atheism" itself, precisely because it is a taboo word, carrying frissons of hysterical phobia.
What we do is have the patient go all the way open and think, "What hand grasp pattern do I want?"
I had the key grip, I had a chuck grip, I had a power grasp and I had a fine pinch.
These are quite different, and they are outside the grasp of modern diplomacy.
We didn't grasp what was going on.
And also because that's where, in terms of our own self-interest, we finally begin to grasp our ability to respond, our responsibility to the rest of the world.
We can't truly grasp Ronnie's situation without understanding how things like unjust laws and biased policing systematic racism has created the disproportionate incarceration rates over time.
You see, there's something about climate change that we didn't grasp just a decade ago.
There's this remarkable technology called a thermostat: you grasp it, rotate it to the left, and your energy consumption in the home will decrease.
What future could the young build with so little grasp of where they've come from and so few narratives of what's possible?
Well, we're trying to give you the solar system in your grasp — (Laughter) — and we hope once it's there, you'll be able to learn for yourself what we've done out there, and what we're about to do.
We can never seem to grasp it in its totality.
Okay, but I thought it was a very important point for all of us to grasp, these are human beings just like us.
I tried to grasp what she was saying.
But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in prison, no one to help them write a business plan, figure out a way to translate the business concepts they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the Internet, even.
He comes over here, and he gets the fingers to grasp together, and the robot infers, ah, you want an object for me to pick up.
This might be somewhat difficult to grasp now that we use the word "awesome" to describe a new app or a viral video.
This Ethiopic cross illustrates what Dr. Ron Eglash has established: that Africa has a lot to contribute to computing and mathematics through their intuitive grasp of fractals.
They've been looking outward for a long time, yet what they were looking for has been right there within grasp, right within them.
Now, I know many people in this room and around the world will think, "Well actually, this is hard to grasp," because private capitalism and liberal democracy are held sacrosanct.
Now this is often quoted, but it's difficult to really grasp, to really internalize, because exactly this idea of being gone is so difficult to imagine.
SP: Are you saying that people needed a step-by-step argument to grasp why something might be a wee bit wrong with burning heretics at the stake?
In the 1980s, most people still didn't know what a fax machine was, and if they did, it was difficult for them to grasp the concept of instantly reproducing an image on the other side of the world.
For scientists, it can be hard to fully grasp how a piece of wood can be a living god or how spirits surround bones.
Let's grasp this opportunity to let go of a tired, faulty narrative and listen and look for true stories, more beautifully complex stories, about who marginalized people and families and communities are.
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