clasping
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Another was likely written while in China: “A soldier, yet a priest / clasping my hands in prayer / toward the moon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
His understated reaction before clasping hands with Rushing seemed to simply say, I guess I did that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
"My son," she said with one hand on the embroidery and the other clasping his, "help me bring this out in the light so I may see it better."
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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