Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
clutching
IPA transcription: [kl'ʌtʃɪŋ]
Usage examples
Dr. Vince sat rigid, clutching the arms of his chair.
Like an eagle clutching his prey, his arm swooped down
He leaped inside the thrust, clutching for the knife arm.
Disregarding the clutching tentacles entirely, I swung the bar against the helmet.
It was even clutching at the hearts of Granny and Reddy Fox and of great, big Buster Bear.
Clutching my 400 gulden, I placed 200 of them on twelve figures, to see what would come of it.
'The instinctive want of faith, and clutching at a sin to keep myself from sinking,' said she bitterly.
I felt a sudden pressure on my arm, and found that Lessingham was clutching me with probably unconscious violence.
Angrily she shook off the hand of the other woman, and clutching the box yet more firmly under her arm, she hurried away.
I could already see it happen--the dropped necklace, the sudden clutching hand, the girl's sharp cry as he seized her and drew her in.