How to Use grapple in a Sentence

grapple

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• One went so far as to swing a grapple at a boatswain's head.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• Bar break is one place taxis grapple for space with Ubers and Lyfts.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
• A loud pop is heard as Sanchez and the officer grapple.
  — Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
• Palazzo said he and the rest of the school grapple with the what-ifs: If school had been open, would there have been a chance to save Ava?
  — Sally Ho and Camille Fassett, Chron, 29 Mar. 2021
• Surveillance video shows the gun pointed at the clerk's head as the two grapple.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The two grapple for a while, but everyone in the room knows how this match is going to end.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
• Other members of the friend group grapple with their own changes.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022
• And that’s something that both this play and Dry Powder grapple with.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
• This is the essence of the maddening grapple between Heidl and Kehlmann.
  — William Giraldi, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Back at the Pynk, Autumn and Uncle Clifford grapple for the throne as new blood shakes up the locker room.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• Pendleton, 38, still gets on the mat and grapples during practice.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020
• Those two lines cross, and slide up one another, and then there's a grapple and capture.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
• Mark and Key grapple with closing the distance between them.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2021
• Vasarhelyi and Chin grapple with the risks rescuers had to undertake for the mission.
  — Ari Schneider, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• Wrestlers cover themselves in wood ash and grapple, the aim being to put your opponent on the ground.
  — Aaron Schuman, CNN, 5 June 2017
• The change comes as countries around the globe grapple with the highly contagious delta variant.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2021
• Trust no one, grapple for the upper hand, maximize the margins.
  — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
• The observances come as the U.S. grapples with the death and destruction caused by two hurricanes in three weeks.
  — Darlene Superville, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Here’s what to know about the drone attacks in Saudi Arabia and what lies ahead as the U.S. grapples with an attack against a key ally.
  — Tara Law, Time, 16 Sep. 2019
• The fatal gunfire comes as Dallas grapples with an uptick in murders.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2023
• These restrictions are an attempt to combat the outbreak, to help the Italian health-care sector grapple with the virus’s growth.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2020
• Day-to-day life in Serbia has nearly come to a halt as the nation remains in mourning and grapples with a new and unforeseen threat.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• Both seasons of the show are worth watching; the first for the school's heart-wrenching attempts at a win, and the second for the team's grapple with fame, the pandemic, and a shocking scandal.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
• Of course, no Batsuit would be complete without Batman's trademark grapple gun, which flips out from the suit's wrist.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• But Kline’s work transcends the jeremiad and grapples with the persistence of beauty as a basic adaptive tool.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Jodie Comer stars as Kathy, Benny’s wife who fell for him at a young age and grapples with the consequences of Benny’s involvement in the group.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• As officers begin to take him into custody, Brooks jerks away and the three grapple with one another on the ground.
  — NBC News, 16 June 2020
• That’s why the Lanvin show was so very interesting: a hard grapple with what was and could be in tailoring and beyond.
  — Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
• Much of Lajimodiere's work grapples with trauma as it was felt by Native people in the region.
  — Trisha Ahmed, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023
• The grapple over grapes in states like Connecticut is part of a larger effort to extend where people can buy alcohol in the U.S.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023

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grapple

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• The zones are each made up of about 12 to 15 blocks that have grappled with high rates of violence.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Here was a new crisis for the city to grapple with: Could the Mayor be believed?
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• This includes the show’s attempts to grapple with its own core premise.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• Nicolas Cage is grappling with a whole new side of fame in Dream Scenario.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• The pair grapple, and the seal manages to bite one of the octopus’s arms several times.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• New York City has grappled with crime spikes since the pandemic.
  — Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 8 July 2023
• This isn’t the first time the networks have had to grapple with an autumn apocalypse.
  — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, Splinter is grappling with the fact that his boys need him a little less and want to be on their own a lot more.
  — Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• As Israel grapples with the fallout from the attack, many in the south still feel isolated and alone.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• The country has grappled with stagnation for over a decade.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The family of a man shot by LAPD over a plastic fork grapples with grief as video is released.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The mounting uncertainty comes as the state and city governments grapple with the cost of the crisis.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• As the animals grappled, one of the mammal’s hind legs was pinned below the dinosaur as its front paw grasped the dinosaur’s beak.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 18 July 2023
• The assailant is behind bars, but the victims are still grappling with the physical and mental scars from this 2018 hate crime.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Still, the play has been criticized for not truly grappling with slavery and the cotton trade (and skirting the fact that some Lehmans owned slaves).
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Taking refuge with their lover’s mystic cousin, Shams grapples with their complex sense of self.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• The challenge is one that companies like Apple have grappled with as well.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• What identity issues are the characters grappling with in the show?
  — Simran Hans, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• But during the past several months, the bottom has fallen out of the market as buyers grapple with a tidal wave of new risks.
  — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• But lawmakers will be grappling with a lean budget next year.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• The singer and guitarist socked away songs grappling with frustration, pain and love during the pandemic.
  — David Peisner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Scholars have grappled over the word’s origin and historic usage.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• To truly grapple with those things sometimes requires the poetics of evil.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• But probably most people can’t even begin to grapple with the concept of where this is going.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2023
• The indie-rock band the National is at the height of its influence, and still grappling with its concerns about declining.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2023
• Fellow passengers watched as the men punched and grappled with each other, according to video watched by CNN.
  — Jeff Winter, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• But the number of unsafe riders in the South Bay has left city officials and police grappling with how to keep everyone safe.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• Other notable figures from the grappling world were in attendance, too.
  — Brian Roberts, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Not knowing what the future will hold is hard, and the fourth season finale grappled with a question all twenty- and thirtysomethings face at some point: changing dreams.
  — Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
• Like much of the northern hemisphere, China has seen extreme weather this year, earlier this month grappling with a heat wave.
  — Radina Gigova, CNN, 29 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024