Such ingenuity enabled the agency to grasp the extent and limits of the Soviet military in the 1950's without artificial satellites.

The Carthaginian's quick brain grasped the situation without difficulty.

Many 2-year-olds will run into the street or reach out to grasp a sharp knife without hesitation.

Only the ancient Greeks seemed to grasp the fundamental bisexuality of human nature without hypocrisy.

Given the subject matter, the book's approach, structure, and language are remarkably straightforward and relatively easy to grasp without prior study in the field.

This sounds really cool, but it's hard to grasp without an example of what you might be imaging with this technique, or pretty pictures, perhaps.

It's an exciting breakthrough, but one that may have been hard to grasp for those of us without a physics degree.

He tried to grasp the notion of life without his longtime friend.

I can, sir, but it remains difficult to grasp without an understanding of the social context.

America's drug problem seems impossible to grasp without some sense of its size and scope.