1.   He relaxed his grip on the mug, rolled his sleeves down, pushed his chair back.

2.   Never for one moment does this shimmering, simmering emotional desert storm of a film relax its grip on your senses.

3.   Weeping with merriment, gleeful through and through, she never relaxed her grip.

4.   He relaxed his grip on my arm.

5.   He gradually relaxed his grip on the arms of the chair.

6.   How much can the President relax his grip over the nation?

7.   The pilots cautiously relaxed their grip and let their muscles slacken.

8.   Shortly after the invasion began, Iraq appeared to be making significant progress, but then unaccountably relaxed its grip.