Example Sentences

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Clasped in his arms, Janey rallies her swooning senses with ingenuity worthy of true American girlhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clasped in his fingers was only a single strand of Nuwa's hair, a tiny drop of blood falling from it.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Clasped he his death indeed, Clasped the rod?

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

Clasped above an elbow was an enamelled gold band, such as youth no longer wore, with a hinge and fine gold chain securing the lock.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph