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Example sentences for: clutching

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Soon you won't be able to move for head-scarfed women clutching wide-eyed babies and holding out their hands in your direction.
The Globe , however, reports that it was Lawrence's fiancee, Shamicka Gibbs, who has been "sitting at [his] bedside clutching Martin's limp hand and praying to God to spare his troubled life."
The shame is not so much the obvious absurdity as that such a reading, clutching at alien abstractions, finds no place to observe the perfect specificity of describing honeycombs as "clammy cells."
(The presidential candidates, of course, are still clutching to the across-the-board cuts.)
His heroic loyal wife is constantly shown on TV clutching her heart or anxiously clasping her hands during games (she's the one with the k.d.