gripped

Perhaps the worst fallout from all this is that when we are gripped by fear, we usually make terrible decisions.

No one should be given a lethal prescription of drugs when they are gripped by mental illness or in a temporary depression.

Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence.

Ten years before the brutal genocide, a religious fervor gripped Kibeho as dozens claimed the Virgin Mary had appeared to them.

But while the country seems gripped by shutdown fever, many tourists from here and abroad had no clue it would affect their plans.

A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

He gripped the arms of his chair; from where she stood, she could see the veins standing out on his hands.

Paris might have screamed; he would not have swerved a hair's breadth till he had gripped the Golden Horn.

He gripped Shiv's shoulder convulsively, nearly sending his own car into the ditch by so doing.

The girl looked at him without speaking, schooling her features to betray nothing of the fear that gripped her heart.