clasp
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The items, which included a gold ring, a bracelet with a dragon's head clasp, and a collection of coins, had been buried by Vikings in the 9th Century and hidden for 1,100 years.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The tension between Altman and Amodei seemed to surface last week, when they were the only ones who didn’t clasp hands onstage during a group pose at an AI event in India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
The medal was recovered, but she gave up trying to find the clasp that had failed to keep it connected to the ribbon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
The best thing to do is to crouch face-down, bend the legs underneath the torso and clasp both hands behind the neck, Nakae said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
The sun sank beneath the horizon as we landed, and as I touched the shore I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me for ever.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Lindo laughs, clasps his hands together and raises them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
A model adorned with armor-like neck clasps, tears streaming from his eyes, sported a ruched devore gown that fused the high-priestly with a warrioresque Middle Earth aesthetic.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
"Underwear for me can be quite difficult and I really benefit from having clasps on the side, because then they're easier to take on and off if I'm lying down," Eliza says.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
She unlatched the clasps and opened it, revealing two floors and several rooms full of miniature furniture.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
At lunchtime, the prisoners in navy overalls file into the dining hall with heads bowed and hands clasped behind their backs.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Guarded by elite army commandos, their mascot Aloka -- a stray dog rescued in India -- walked on a leash, drawing bows and clasped hands from devotees lining the route.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Some clasped their hands together, while others prostrated themselves.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Dr. Cain had her hands clasped on her knee.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
And what to read mine? is my booke claspt up?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
My lord, We have claspt your cause, believing that our brother Had wrong'd you; but this day he proffer'd peace.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
The child lifted up and claspt its little beseeching hands, and stroakt the pale neck and cheeks of the marble beauty.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
"What name?" an he put it i'th' book,— An shoo hardly seemed able to stand; As shoo tottered, he happened to luk saw summat claspt in her hand.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never claspt; but bred a dog.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
On the coastal road at Playa Canizo, a man in a straw hat and sodden fatigues, clasping an equally wet suitcase, thrust out his left arm, hoping for a ride to safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
On Saturday, he knew, walking toward home plate and clasping hands with Will Smith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025
Raducanu sealed victory with a ripping forehand winner on her second match point, breaking into a beaming smile and clasping the peak of her hat in shock.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
He did his impression of this, clasping both hands to his chest and batting his eyelashes like a silent film star.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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