clutches
Example Sentences
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Demonstrating the technique in a video on social media, he clutches a blank piece of paper behind the colander he is holding up.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Set against the backdrop of our modern culture, where we’re filming everything but listening to no one, McElwee finds himself trapped in irony’s clutches.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
One of his latest creations, an animatronic hand, clutches when he pulls a trigger that he built using a 3-D printer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Claw machine lover Neiki Lee carefully lowers the metal jaws of a crane with a joystick into a pool of prizes, only to have the small toy slip from its clutches again and again.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
No hours so dark had Pippin known, not even in the clutches of the Uruk-hai.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
