clench
verb (used with object)
to close (the hands, teeth, etc.) tightly.
will clench
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future tenseof clench.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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A hurt fist will clench, a face twist, a foot limp.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then we will clench the business, Don Antolin; you may reckon on me, I am always ready to earn a day's wage whenever it turns up."
From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Mrs. W. A. Gillespie
It will weep, when it has got the length of tears, by the pailful; it will clench its fists, distort its face into a hideous expression of anguish, and scream itself into convulsions.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 by Robert Chambers
This will appear in our own sample copies, and is what will clench and make subscribers of every name that comes.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Albert Bigelow Paine
