Words similar to clawing

Example sentences for: clawing

How can you use “clawing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
"What will a sudden break do to Indonesia's economy, particularly at a time when the country is clawing its way back to growth after the Asian crisis?"
And now they turned to us, this sea of people, more than three hundred of them, shouting and screaming, men swinging fists and weapons, women swinging heavy purses, little children clawing with their fingernails at the faces of anyone they could reach.
The foregoing is merely a sampling and by no means constitutes the full documentation of Skeat's clawing back from the brink of ignominy at having pinched another's work.