Example Sentences

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It’s almost always someone who is clasping the steering wheel a little too hard, staring straight ahead, a glazed, or confused, look on their face, like they’re doing all they can to just get by.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019

All my sisters have gathered around on the floor, because Mama is cheesin’ hard and is clasping her hands as if this envelope is about to change our lives.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

But he is clasping it tightly, and the poor widow's pleading is in vain.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

In most places I can see the straight ending of the cloud, but above the lake grey fingers are coming up and down, like a hand that is clasping and opening again.

From In Wicklow and West Kerry by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)

The poor affrighted waggoner is clasping his hands together in despair.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis