clutched

Example Sentences

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The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never send an editor a penciled, smutched, and disorderly MS., with a note saying, "I just dashed this off last night and send it right on."

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond

The old book of my life was so smutched and begrimed—torn, dogs-eared, and scrawled over—that it was scarcely worth while to turn over a new leaf.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

He went out therefrom very black and ugly, and his clothes quite smutched.

From The Dream by Chase, Eliza E.

And then in came a wee girl of seven, with dirty face and pure blue eyes and a smutched and insufficient dress.

From Options by Henry, O.