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The more expensive bag - a size 25, was embellished with rhinestones on the clasp and trim - went for nearly seven times the starting bid.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

The devices, made by London-based Greyparrot, use AI to identify recyclables, flag food-grade material, gauge items’ mass, assess market value and calculate points at which a robotic claw might best clasp each piece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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

“Conclave” had a religious supervisor on set, who taught them the proper way to clasp their hands in prayer and cross themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

His mother didn’t clasp her hands, but she bowed her head.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

On our call, Patinkin clasps his arm around Grody, showering her with affection and telling her he adores her as she bursts out laughing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

So, too, did the occasional sheen of gold-metal Chloe belts, golden grape neck clasps, or the occasional giant brown leather handbag almost as big as the model holding it.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

He stretches back and clasps his hands over his massive, bricklike midsection.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

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

The place was heaving with devotees, hands clasped at their chests and lips moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

At lunchtime, the prisoners in navy overalls file into the dining hall with heads bowed and hands clasped behind their backs.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Guarded by elite army commandos, their mascot Aloka -- a stray dog rescued in India -- walked on a leash, drawing bows and clasped hands from devotees lining the route.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

She knelt on her pallet in the darkness and clasped her hands together on her knees.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

"Then come, oh Spirit, from behind   "The curtains of thy radiant home, "If thou wouldst be as angel shrined,   "Or loved and claspt as mortal, come!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

But the youngest Goddess claspt the Ball to her breast.

From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

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

Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the instep with flowers of golde.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington

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

On Saturday, he knew, walking toward home plate and clasping hands with Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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

Matilda noticed that the hands clasping the mug were trembling slightly.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl