Example sentences for: clutches

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

  • Taking phylogeny and the idiosyncrasies of the Australian avifauna into account, southern species typically lay small clutches and have long fledging periods, and it is often difficult to predict their date of first laying or, indeed, whether they will lay in a particular year at all (Covas et al.

  • Increasingly complex human systems, Paulos writes, will never escape the clutches of foolish humans.

  • By contrast, northern species lay larger clutches and have shorter fledging periods, and laying date is more readily predicted, making investigations of phenological shifts associated with modern climatic change more straightforward (e.g.

  • (Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Dan Seligman writes in the Wall Street Journal that Lemann is "a dazzling writer in the clutches of a bad idea."

  • He clutches her in to him with his hand on the small of her back while she's looking up at him adoringly.


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