clutch at
Example Sentences
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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
Ten, fifteen, or twenty at a time would clutch at the tape, as it streamed out with its endless lines of quotations,” Miller wrote in the Chicago Tribune of Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025
Ferguson had a sizeable straw to clutch at given his side had won silverware in three successive campaigns.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025
Needing a victory to advance in a win-or-else race in the 2016 playoffs, Harvick delivered in the clutch at New Hampshire and made the next round.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2023
If I felt the gaff’s hold was uncertain, I would let go of it—I had not forgotten to secure it with a rope to the raft—and I would clutch at the fish with my hands.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
