Synonym: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting. Similar words: ripping, dripping, dipping, clipping, shipping, skipping, snipping, flipping. Meaning: ['grɪpɪŋ] adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention.
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31. The valve can still be operated by gripping the stub in a pair of pliers, but it will defeat small children.
32. Collins creates a gripping picture of slow-moving, small-town life, and packs it into a treat of a murder mystery.
33. The author describes in gripping detail the accident on the icy highway.
34. He might have been an ebony statue, larger than life, his hands gripping the arms of the chair.
35. Gripping the over head chrome rail, he stooped forward as if to see what street was coming up.
36. Yet here he was, standing at the bar, each hand gripping a pint glass, with all eyes on him.
37. Gripping the key in his pocket as if it were a holy relic, he took his first step into the world.
38. I sit with my arms wrapped around the chrome railing and my bare heels gripping the sides.
39. We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains.
40. Sweating profusely and gripping the lectern, Anderson began his speech.
41. And parents also benefit from the much-needed peace and quiet a really gripping book can provide.
42. It's more a thriller with some pretty serious action scenes that had me gripping the seat.
43. He simply stood and looked at Guy, aware of rage, like a vice, gripping his ribcage.
44. She had immediately closed her mind to all thought, not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan's hand.
45. The match could have swung either way in the final gripping 20 minutes.
46. Cops gripping those billy clubs, one hand at each end, twisting hard.
47. Five or six sparrows instantly alighted on my arms and head, gripping my skin with their bony little claws.
48. He left the bar with Maidstone's hat in his hand, gripping it firmly by the brim.
49. She was gripping the tiller arm so tightly that the blood had been driven out of her knuckles.
50. Bull leaned out of the window, gripping the edge of the crumbling sill with spotlessly clean hands.
51. He threw down the washing-up mop and stood stock-still for a moment, gripping the edge of the sink.
52. Your eyes narrow against the claws gripping you by the scruff of the neck until you let your hook of anger go.
53. She rushed into the kitchen, gripping her left wrist with her right hand.
54. Miss Hazelwood stepped up from behind her desk, slender and poised and gripping the tawse.
55. The other man moved over to join them, gripping Connelly's right arm so that his hand was groping at empty air. Sentencedict.com
56. The storyline at the moment is very good, gripping and makes you watch the next episode.
57. We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.
58. And if the figures' location is often nebulous, so are the suggested narratives gripping these people.
59. Isabel dropped to the floor where she stood, one hand gripping the edge of the bench.
60. Four fingers were thrust, gripping, through a gap between the planks of the door.
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