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Clutched in sentence

38 examples of Clutched in a sentence

Or as one of my college professors said, "He clutched for the handrail of faith."
And of course, those Catholic opponents clutched their pearls and called for civility then, too, but all the while, they gave as good as they got with traditional slurs like "heretic," and, worst of all, "Protestant," which began in the 16th century as an insult.
Finding a scalpel clutched in her hand(..from the operation room), Nami will break free from the cage and prey upon each member of the clan responsible for the hooker's death.
My older daughter's heart was pounding so hard in the middle that when she clutched my hand I could feel it on my upper arm.
Ordinary Nigerians, brutalized by a dizzying succession of corrupt and inept military juntas, have, like a drowning man, clutched at "democracy" as their lifeline.
One clutched a pouch of blood and the other held my daughter’s medical dossier.
Ned Land was unwilling to leave his provisions behind, and despite the impending danger, he clutched his pig on one side, his kangaroos on the other, and scampered off with respectable speed.
The latter divide into two groups, dive in rotation, and descend to a depth of twelve meters with the help of a heavy stone clutched between their feet and attached by a rope to their boat."
I clutched Conseil's hand.
I clutched his hand.
She clutched him, clinging to him like the ivy to the wall.
As he took leave of her, she clutched his arm violently:'You will receive a letter from me this evening,' she told him in a voice so strained as to be barely audible.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it - a cowardly thing to do, I call it - and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head.
And then the chair slipped, and George clutched wildly at the trout-case to save himself, and down it came with a crash, George and the chair on top of it.
She twisted her body about on the pavement, staring provokingly at the men who came along, and raising her skirt, which she clutched in a bunch in her hand, much higher than any respectable woman would have done, in order to display her lace-up boots and stockings.
I bounded forward, and clutched her by the arm.
All this was gall and wormwood to the heart of Gabriel Grub; and when groups of children bounded out of the houses, tripped across the road, and were met, before they could knock at the opposite door, by half a dozen curly-headed little rascals who crowded round them as they flocked upstairs to spend the evening in their Christmas games, Gabriel smiled grimly, and clutched the handle of his spade with a firmer grasp, as he thought of measles, scarlet fever, thrush, whooping-cough, and a good many other sources of consolation besides.
The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece with his right hand.
You then--"Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my companion's knees.
With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up.
Nick's fingers closed on the hand with which she nervously clutched the pommel of her saddle.
Tarvin's hand found the Naulahka within his breast, and clutched it tightly.
Her hands clutched her armchair; she ground her teeth inwardly; her eyes followed the motion of the door as it closed behind Lord de Winter and Felton, and the moment she was alone a fresh fit of despair seized her.
She cast her eyes upon the table, saw the glittering of a knife, rushed toward it and clutched it; but her disappointment was cruel.
We clutched each other fast, to save ourselves from being thrown off the raft.
"His papers were found burned in the grate, his wristband was clutched in the dead man's hand, and his knife lay beside the body."
The next instant he had turned and I had clutched with both my hands on to Champion Harrison's arm.
Herbert's thin hands clutched the sheets.
A strange and almost ludicrous nervousness clutched at him and vented itself on Jasmin.