Even wet, the nobby leather made a sure grip for his fingers.

So that the hilt itself was metal, wound with thick wire to make a good grip which would not turn in a sweating hand.

And he made a tight grip with both fists and gestured with his hands.

With wide spreading fingers, Hunn made a quick grip for Crane's throat.

I straightened my arm a little, and made it a double-handed grip.

As he cowped over, Terry made a frenzied grip at the sides of the banister.

The two ends of the blanket wound under the victim's arms and back up her neck where they made a convenient carrying grip.

A few inches of tape wrapped at one end made a grip.

"That's really the way the human hand is shaped when somebody makes a grip," Mr. Goldstein said.

Under puddled conditions, soil can not make a strong grip on the seedlings.