claws
Example Sentences
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Crew members operating trucks with claws pick up the materials in batches and deposit them on conveyor belts to start the sorting process.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Aesthetes had been howling about the Freedom 250 set, a soaring, 92-foot tall structure which resembled one of those arcade machine claws in which you try and fail to grab a stuffed hippopotamus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Webbed claws clutch at a rock, and slowly, awkwardly, the creature lifts her rounded, barrel-like body out of the river.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Their analysis showed that the claws of this fossil bug were strikingly different from those found in other insects.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
Then her claws, her jaws, her very strangeness might have frightened him into backing away.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
