clasp
noun
a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing.
are clasping
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present progressiveof clasp.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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At thrillingly precarious moments — in one, the electrician’s legs dangle above a vertigo-inducing drop — the player must squeeze both controller triggers as if Caz’s hands are clasping onto the splintering rig.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Children's merry voices Break your witching spells, Chubby hands are clasping Languishing Blue-bells.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
Both hands grasp the under garment, and the eyes are evidently turned in eager expectancy upon the folds which the hands are clasping, in the hope that the roving tormentor has at last been captured.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
Then, still without a word, we are clasping hands.
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Fancy that you are clasping the hand of the kind friend who has been generous or thoughtful for you, and then write, even as you would speak.
From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence
