clasp
noun
a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing.
am clasping
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present progressiveof clasp (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I have thrown myself on Barbara's little white bed, and am clasping her pillow in my empty arms.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
Pardon me, dearest friend, for trembling e'en at the moment When I am clasping your arm!
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
And if I am clasping my five fingers round some earthly good it is of no use to hold up that hand to God.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
