I suppose we shouldn't leave out 'handhold' as another. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Being On the Lookout] Reference
You don't want to give any kind of handhold or leverage for those winds to pick up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2006] Reference
She threw her arms out and fought to find any kind of handhold she could, but it was no use. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union] Reference
Length are 24 inch plus a little as a "handhold" for better handling at the start and at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Finally finished!] Reference
The walls of the pool were smooth, without handhold. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
I kept one handhold and very slowly edged to face outward. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
But he couldn't find a solid handhold in the surface of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [Golgotha] Reference
They have grabbed another town, which, I guess, is now a handhold. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006] Reference
Except on the very edge of the abyss there was scarcely a handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
John Sung lost his handhold and slid across the floor into the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
Bathrooms may need grab bars near the toilet to offer a firm handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Aid to Make Homes 'Accessible'] Reference
I grabbed a handhold, putting my face up against the cold window glass. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Someday perhaps "A More Perfect Union" will be a handhold for Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech] Reference
I put my left foot on the improvised step and got a handhold with my left. From Wordnik.com. [A Separate War]
They were traveling up, and this made her handhold the only secure contact. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
He made his hands stop trembling, reached down, found a handhold, tested it. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
The next moment was not easy; he was unsure of his handhold and he hesitated. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
So, something for him to work on: dancing with a partner in a close handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars First Round Eliminations Unsurprising] Reference
He saw then that he really was stranded, two meters from the nearest handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Very -- a lot of places you can get a foothold, get a handhold, and climb over. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2006] Reference
He reached the summit, glanced around, and made a quick grab for a secure handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Somehow I managed to get enough handhold and foothold to work my way up beside him. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
Brander lets go for a moment, drifts back a few meters before catching another handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
Before she could move, I was over and down and had locked a handhold on one of her wrists. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
If someone out there can pry out a handhold on this quandary, I'll see what I can do with it. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story: "A Hard Box to Think Outside Of" (13th in a series)] Reference
The moss on the fortress offered a flimsy handhold, but it led to ivy which gave a better grip. From Wordnik.com. [The Bane of The Black Sword]
Thorvald, pulling himself to his feet by a rock handhold, gazed westward, his gaunt face eager. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The Democrats have been out of power for so long they're afraid to lose any handhold they have. From Wordnik.com. [MO-SEN: National GOP Dumps Nearly A Million Bucks Into Race] Reference
The first went up the ladder like a squirrel, got foothold and handhold and began to edge across. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
I floated out of the tank, grabbed a handhold and levered myself around to view the other two tanks. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Glue with Spaulding's glue a piece of velvet or even red flannel around the middle to mark your handhold. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
When I knocked the door open and pulled myself out, using the wheel as a handhold, it broke off in my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Above the River's Edge] Reference
Stocks briefly found a handhold as they tried to avoid yet another decline -- and then lost their grip again. From Wordnik.com. [Stocks Try to Climb, Then Stumble 59.91 Points] Reference
Ross kept a handhold to the left of that narrow entrance, his body floating with the rise and fall of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Encased in an orange vest and battered helmet, Sachs gripped the handhold near the open doorway and thought again. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
There, one's individual handhold on the mountainside of karmic reality is being shuffled around at breakneck speed. From Wordnik.com. [The Dalai Lama & Costco: When Ultimate Truth met Relative Truth...] Reference
This stick affords a handhold for the marked dancers who are often encumbered with ceremonial paraphernalia as they enter the kiva. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The handhold was nothing but thin cable-wire, and there wasn't a thing, if you tripped, to keep you from falling off and down, down, down. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
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