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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.