How to Use grappling in a Sentence

grappling

noun

• The high points: There’s a grappling hook, and also a sword.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 17 Aug. 2018
• In stage two, the grappling hook is used once again to retrieve a bag with a handle in it.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2017
• The process, the feeling, the emotion, the grappling, is very universal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• During a grappling drill, Costa turns and hurts his arm.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• After a half-minute of grappling, Howard was finally able to pry his hand free and speed away.
  — Matt Wolfe, New Republic, 2 Aug. 2017
• So Beau is a virgin grappling with the idea that sleeping with the girl of his dreams might literally kill him.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 13 June 2023
• This is what the book is about, about the grappling of American Jewry (and its secret girlfriend, Israel).
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• While her songs deal with a grappling of her inner demons, the fashion also appears ready for combat.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 July 2022
• But keeping the industry alive will require grappling with what sort of country Ukraine wants to be after the war.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Keibler appeared to be practicing some grappling moves on the beach with Annable while soaking in the Mexican heat.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Neither is there any sign of serious grappling with an endgame in Gaza once the fighting begins.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• Particularly Jack, with your grappling, and Sean, with your attitude both in and out of the cage.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Diane trained five days a week, for two hours at a time, cycling through things like fight training, wrestling, grappling, and gymnastics.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 29 June 2023
• Diaz is a third-degree black belt in Jiu Jitsu but the grappling skills will be of no value Saturday night.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• Nunes went directly to her grappling-centric gameplan in rounds three through five.
  — Nolan King, MMA Junkie, 15 Dec. 2019
• Another $10 million in loans and grants will be available to small businesses in the city grappling with day-to-day survival.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• Longtime senators are not the only ones in the chamber grappling with health concerns.
  — Neil Vigdor, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Shoot a grappling hook directly from your perspective, tap gamepad buttons to make your hero jump on its wire, then bob your head to raise the wire higher.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
• In truly violent stories, the plot is one of grappling, and grappling with grappling.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 21 Feb. 2018
• The lockout rule means no more than two players from each team can get into a scrap, which is the grappling matches underwater.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• With all fighters having been forced to improve their wrestling, grappling and jiu-jitsu, the playing field in those techniques has leveled.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• When his landing craft reached shore, three Rangers hopped out, set some charges and blew up obstacles so the rest of them could get out, shoot grappling hooks up the face of a cliff called Pointe du Hoc and take out large artillery guns.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• There were some fun variations; the grappling hook could be used not just to propel Rico around, but to tie objects or enemies to each other.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
• When teams clash, the battle plays out as a game of positioning and grappling; one misstep usually results in a body brutally yanked to the ground, dragged off, and swarmed.
  — Siren Goes Off, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• Their ideas—a grappling hook, new mystical combo-attack powers, coming back from the dead—might be a true answer to Tecmo's Souls-like game Nioh.
  — Kyle Orland, Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
• For example, the Colorado co-main event is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu grappling match, while there will be Muay Thai and kickboxing bouts laced throughout.
  — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Despite losing position for a brief moment, Modafferi used her slick grappling skills for a reversal of her own.
  — Nolan King, MMA Junkie, 18 Jan. 2020
• Tilt the device to make your on-screen bot move in that direction, and touch the screen to initiate an electrical grappling hook to interact with your environment.
  — Jean Snow, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2008
• Tuesday's water content of the snowpack — in a state grappling with years of drought — was 186% of normal to date, according to the state Department of Water Resources' online data.
  — John Antczak, Amy Taxin and Ben Finley, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
• Hawaii isn’t the only US state grappling with devastating wildfires – a trend some experts had predicted for this season.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024