(n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
(n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
(n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
(n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
(n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.
(n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
(n.) To close tightly; to clinch.
(v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damn that Beltran, what a clutch postseason performer.
(2) When Guillem was approached by French Vogue to be photographed seven years ago she was presented with a clutch of the world's best fashion photographers to choose from.
(3) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(4) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(5) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
(6) On arriving in Cyprus, Mike was the only person present to celebrate leaving the clutches of Egypt’s national airline.
(7) I’ve known them for over 10 years,” said Eugene Ward, 43, clutching a bag of water bottles and beer cans.
(8) Aston Villa goalkeeper intercepts and clutches the ball to his chest.
(9) Despite the absence of a comprehensive deal, a clutch of local agreements have been reached, the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) said in a report last June.
(10) We have rescued 26 children from the clutches of human traffickers in the past 20 days and sent them to rehabilitation centres,” said Sanjeev Kumar, a senior labour official in Bihar’s East Champaran district.
(11) When I flew to Salisbury shortly afterwards, the man in the next seat was clutching a thick polythene bag full of small metal objects.
(12) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(13) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(14) With Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez still missing, Koeman is reliant on a small clutch of attackers including Dusan Tadic, Sadio Mané, Shane Long, Steven Davis and Graziano Pellè.
(15) On return to their nests, the birds immediately resumed incubation and laid a second clutch of eggs after 5 days at which time the first clutch was removed.
(16) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
(17) A practical preventive measure would be to encourage manufacturers to equip machines with remotely located spring-opening clutches.
(18) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(19) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(20) Shara Proctor, who might have had hopes of gold while Okagbare busied herself with the 200m, managed only two steps of a run-up before clutching at her left thigh and leaving the arena with her hoodie pulled sorrowfully around her face.
Fang
Definition:
(a.) To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
(a.) To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
(v. t.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
(v. t.) Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
(v. t.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
(v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
(v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
(v. t.) The valve of a pump box.
(v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(2) This case demonstrates the hazard of even preserved snake heads and fangs.
(3) The first classification of epilepsy, probably by Cao Yuan Fang in A.D. 610, listed five types of epilepsy: "Yang Dian," "Yin Dian," "Feng (Wind) Dian," "Shih (Wet) Dian," and "Lao (Labor) Dian."
(4) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(5) Specific antisera against FanG and against FanH were prepared by immunization with hybrid Cro-LacZ-FanG and Cro-LacZ-FanH proteins, respectively.
(6) Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
(7) In Washington the visiting Chinese army chief, General Fang Fenghui, reacted to the situation by accusing the US of stoking tensions in the region .
(8) The monsters in Doctor Sleep are promisingly creepy: polyester-clad senior citizens who turn out to be child-torturing paranormals with fangs beneath their dentures.
(9) According to local reports , Fang Binxing attempted to display a South Korea website, which he said showed the views of South Koreans attempting to build similar infrastructure to China’s firewall, but was blocked by said censorship system.
(10) "Now that we know each other, you can call me Fang Fang," she said.
(11) Proper first aid consists of a proximal mildly constricting tourniquet, superficial incision at fang marks, and constant suction.
(12) The effect of mitotane to Fang-8 cells was a reversible one.
(13) When we meet he has, just the week before, finished directing The Family Fang , starring himself and Nicole Kidman.
(14) That their parties have nevertheless chosen them to confront Griffin suggests that they, like celebrity broadcasters, think it is enough to accuse the BNP leader of racism for him to show his fangs to the cameras.
(15) Among traditional Fang-chi plants only Sinomeniumacutum has been demonstrated to contain the alkaloid sinomenine, which is now known to be effective in neuralgia and rheumatic diseases.
(16) The pulp of the fangs of Viperidae shows a poor collagen and fibroblast content and a high developed vascular system.
(17) The effect of the drug was specific to Fang-8 cells because the same treatment produced little or no toxicity on lines of rat pituitary GH3 cells and human skin fibrocytes.
(18) Fang then had to resort to setting up a virtual private network (VPN) to circumvent the censorship, in full view of the lecture attendees, to display the site.
(19) "Foreigners must get police permission to stay at guesthouses below three stars," Miss Fang said.
(20) ichangensis Y. Y. Fang et C. Z. Zheng, I. kirilowii Maxim.