take hold of

How To Use take hold of In A Sentence

• He snuffled, dark hair damp against my neck, his mouth rooting to take hold of my collarbone. Brush of Darkness
• It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
• Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
• The snare is broken; They could not take hold of his words before the people. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Garrison Keillor 
• So the moments in my life which I call blessings and gladness, and the moments in my life which I call sorrows and tortures, may work into each other, and they will do so if I take hold of them rightly, and use them as they ought to be used. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
• Christ crucified is the power of God (1 Cor.i. 24); let him by a lively faith take hold of him, as a man that is sinking catches hold of a bough, or cord, or plank, that is within his reach, or as the malefactor took hold of the horns of the altar, believing that there is no other name by which he can be saved, by which he can be reconciled. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• holpen" denotes properly, to take hold of one, to help him up when he is in danger of falling, and here means that God had succoured his people when they were feeble, and were in danger of falling or being overthrown. Barnes New Testament Notes
• Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow.
• We change our drossy dust for gold, From death to life we fly: We let go shadows, and take hold Of immortality. The Riches of Bunyan