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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:

One elderly woman clutching a small bag of her belongings gives this situation report: "We have become Bosnia."
As a grown-up, he drives through the northern English countryside beside a frostily pissed-off blond wife, whom he subsequently takes from behind in the kitchen of their country cottage while his young son, clutching a stuffed animal, wanders their way.
(The presidential candidates, of course, are still clutching to the across-the-board cuts.)
Thierry Mugler's black satin one-piece took the sado-maso route with stark black bands clutching ribcage and upper thigh, also for $750.
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."