How to Use grapple in a Sentence

grapple

1 of 2 noun
  • Combat is great, even if the grapple didn’t hook me.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Bar break is one place taxis grapple for space with Ubers and Lyfts.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Other members of the friend group grapple with their own changes.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Those two lines cross, and slide up one another, and then there's a grapple and capture.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • And that’s something that both this play and Dry Powder grapple with.
    — Adam Green, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Trust no one, grapple for the upper hand, maximize the margins.
    — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Has anyone ever seen a mummy grapple?
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Wrestlers cover themselves in wood ash and grapple, the aim being to put your opponent on the ground.
    — Aaron Schuman, CNN, 5 June 2017
  • Pendleton, 38, still gets on the mat and grapples during practice.
    — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The change comes as countries around the globe grapple with the highly contagious delta variant.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The fatal gunfire comes as Dallas grapples with an uptick in murders.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The actor quickly wrapped his legs around Fallon’s sides and pulled his body and arms into a grapple.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Glucose grapples water to help keep ice crystals from growing large and gritty enough for our tongues to notice.
    — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Ghesquière said the approach stood out as fashion grapples with the advances of new technologies.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Vasarhelyi and Chin grapple with the risks rescuers had to undertake for the mission.
    — Ari Schneider, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
  • This is the essence of the maddening grapple between Heidl and Kehlmann.
    — William Giraldi, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • How, Shakespeare asked, would a real mind grapple with these Gothic horrors?
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Their duel ended with a grapple, each holding a dagger at the other’s throat—at which point, both men decided to stop.
    — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Now, as the network and its parent grapple with economic pressures, the pillar is likely to be narrowed.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her mother was left behind, and in spare prose, Nguyen grapples with her absence and its impact on her own identity as a mother.
    — Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
  • 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 script called for her character to throw a wine glass toward Isaac’s head, escalating things into a grapple with a golf club.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The sloptimists are betting that writing devoid of an inner purpose can rival the stuff ripped out of an author’s chest with a claw grapple.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • 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

grapple

2 of 2 verb
  • She, grappling with what to do next.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Musk is far from alone in grappling with that tension.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The voters have to grapple with that.
    — NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Hogan grappled with Andre, picked him up and slammed him down.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Each spoke of their grief and grappling with the loss of Vaughan.
    — Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Now, she’s left to grapple with her recovery and what could have been.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • Many places around the world are grappling with the effects of overtourism.
    — Josh Rivera, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This is now the question players are grappling with.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Haiti has been grappling with gang violence for years.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Politicians are grappling with some of the same questions.
    — Lauren Sausser, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Politicians are grappling with some of the same questions.
    — Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Players from both sides grappled with each other.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But grappling with what’s ahead seems futile for others.
    — Toqa Ezzidin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Platforms are grappling with how to handle them.
    — John Ruwitch, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The sport moved on, and he was left to grapple with the sadness and sudden change in life.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There isn’t enough space here to fully grapple with the Gaiman issue.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • The vow comes as communities grapple with whether to give projects tax breaks.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • In another case, a judge has grappled with issues of parental rights.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Brown had grappled with her mental health throughout her life, Rivera said.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The film grapples with the idea that connection doesn’t require blood.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The district has been grappling with budget concerns for months.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • But what these critics never grapple with is what would be included in these plans.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hinako grapples with coming of age in Japan's Showa era.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • All are grappling with budget problems after the fire and adopting plans to charge more.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the trio is grappling with an unfathomable crime story that hits close to home.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • GameStop has also been grappling with the rise of online shopping.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Long-term partners grappling with power and respect.
    — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Asian countries are grappling with shortages of cooking gas and road fuel.
    — Skylar Woodhouse, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Today’s leaders are grappling with challenges that once seemed like the stuff of fiction.
    — Edyta Pacuk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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