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Example sentences for: clawing

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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.
"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.
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.