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Example sentences for: clutches

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Lewinsky, slathered in makeup and dressed in what presumably is intended to represent a designer outfit, clutches a frilly cocktail and gabs away in Valley speak: "So, I'm like, yuh, and he's like, duh, and I'm like thinking about a new car."
(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 is in the clutches of a denominatory delirium, of a taxonomic madness.
A woman in a ball cap clutches a bundle (garbage?
He clutches her in to him with his hand on the small of her back while she's looking up at him adoringly.