clasping

Example Sentences

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Clasping exhausted children, desperate migrants tried to make their way to the United States Thursday before the end of the pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Clasping hands transformed into a sign of good faith by the 9th century BC, when a stone bas-relief shows Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III sealing an alliance with a Babylonian counterpart.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2020

Clasping his aide’s hand for support, he sashayed across the gym, a sprawling red carpet under his feet.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2017

Clasping hands usually symbolizes the hand of a deceased person coming from the left, Burnett wrote.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2015

Clasping her hands together, she closed those gray-blue eyes and ducked her head down and all I could see then was the big mass of wavy brown hair and the little blue hat.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns