clutch

Inside, a robotic arm carefully lowers a clutch of what look like small eyedroppers to a specialized tray containing small plastic reservoirs, deploying a careful measure of liquid into each.

After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.

Later Rain tells me she had never heard of Weeks, the girl who was clutching her like her favorite sorority sister.

Five minutes later, Grace bounds down the stationary escalator, clutching a bacon cheeseburger and a Coke.

The ladies beside me were clutching their iPhones in what appeared to be death grips.

Back in March, a 44-year-old woman died after jumping from a building uptown while clutching her 10-month-old son.

For they did not come on fighting, but all in a tremble, clutching wildly to get back the papers.

Leaving him still in the hall, clutching nervously at his umbrella, she went into the kitchen and sent out Kathleen.

The Duke entered hurriedly and sank upon a chair, clutching his head with his hands and weeping distractedly.

He was aware that the girl was screaming—and that he was hurling clutching figures away—figures that came pouncing back.

"So much the worse for them," he replied, clutching his revolver.