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Example sentences for: clutching

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Thierry Mugler's black satin one-piece took the sado-maso route with stark black bands clutching ribcage and upper thigh, also for $750.
Soon you won't be able to move for head-scarfed women clutching wide-eyed babies and holding out their hands in your direction.
On average, every third person is reading a newspaper: There are the contortionists who fold the ever-expanding Times into readable wedges, the tabloid readers (whose papers are enviably scaled for reading in motion), and a scattering of people clutching Spanish or Asian papers.
There is a peculiar rumor circulating that Stanley Kubrick expired while clutching a fax from a top Warner Bros. executive congratulating him on his recently screened Eyes Wide Shut . That this was a favorable missive is what makes the report so mordant, so mysterious.
It shouldn't have been a complete surprise when I walked into the elevator in my Washington office building and came upon Dick Morris clutching a book by the late Cardinal Bernardin.