clasp
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A poem declares that “love is like a clasp of jade.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It slows its descent and guides itself with pinpoint precision so it can be captured by a clasp called Mechazilla, or "the chopsticks", by engineers who have achieved something that's never been done before.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
They’re in shock over the news they’ve just received as their hands come together and clasp tightly, realizing that a major battle is coming sooner rather than later.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
The best thing to do is to crouch face-down, bend the legs underneath the torso and clasp both hands behind the neck, Nakae said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
Taran, who had been thoughtfully fingering the clasp, stopped and looked about him uneasily.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Some watched models carry crocodile handbags—revived from a 1920s design and finished with clasps featuring onyx—down the runway at Prada’s womenswear show last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In the video, one of the woman’s young daughters whimpers and the other clasps tightly to her distraught, Mickey ears headband-wearing mother while begging strangers for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
“Now I’m 103," sighs Donald Howkins as he clasps his hands and bows his head, “I often wonder why I’ve lived this long and so many of my mates and friends got killed."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Helmuth clasps his hands on top of his head, walks, elbows sticking out like wings.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
During Slide Away, a man sinks to his knees and sings the lyrics, his hands clasped together as if in prayer.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Kinahan rose to his feet, with his hands clasped in front of him, when a court official read his charge to him on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Newlyweds Tito Avalos, 26, and Andrea Avalos, 24, who were visiting from El Salvador, tied their wishes to a tree together, their wrists entwined and fingers clasped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Mrs. Medina tilts her head to the side as she listens to me, her hands clasped on the desk.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never claspt; but bred a dog.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
"What name?" an he put it i'th' book,— An shoo hardly seemed able to stand; As shoo tottered, he happened to luk saw summat claspt in her hand.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley
The child lifted up and claspt its little beseeching hands, and stroakt the pale neck and cheeks of the marble beauty.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
She knew me, and acknowledged me her heir, Pray'd me to pay her debts, and keep the Faith: Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Nearby, a news conference by the head of Pakistan's parliamentary health committee over the cause of the fire was interrupted by a distraught father clasping his palms together in a plea.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
On the coastal road at Playa Canizo, a man in a straw hat and sodden fatigues, clasping an equally wet suitcase, thrust out his left arm, hoping for a ride to safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025
An accompanying photo shows him and Allred laughing and clasping hands at an event in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
“This is a very special Christmas, mijo,” Mamá said excitedly, clasping her hands.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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