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Example sentences for: clutching

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

Ink does not sweat, we do not sweat ink, and even the traditional fingers clutching traditional ink-filled pens were less likely to be troubled by sweat than by chilly cramp.
One elderly woman clutching a small bag of her belongings gives this situation report: "We have become Bosnia."
He stops taking calls from his wife (always clutching the baby) on his cell phone.
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."
Because so many people turned off the set right after the president's speech, then stumbled toward the liquor cabinet, clutching their head and moaning, they missed these highlights from the opposition.