clasp

A poem declares that “love is like a clasp of jade.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The more expensive bag - a size 25, was embellished with rhinestones on the clasp and trim - went for nearly seven times the starting bid.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

You can only smile and wave and clasp your hands for so long.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

From the corner of my eye, I could see Mrs. Kuen clasp her hands, her grip tightening as I played.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Some watched models carry crocodile handbags—revived from a 1920s design and finished with clasps featuring onyx—down the runway at Prada’s womenswear show last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Lindo laughs, clasps his hands together and raises them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

She turns three times, clasps her hands, closes her eyes and looks toward the sky.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

But when she popped open the clasps, nothing peculiar happened.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

During Slide Away, a man sinks to his knees and sings the lyrics, his hands clasped together as if in prayer.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

During the hearing, Brand, hands clasped behind his jail jumpsuit, said he owed the biggest apology “to the people who lost out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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

She clasped her hands under her chin and sighed.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

In one hand he carried a port-folio, and his other paw claspt a bunch of small brushes.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward

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

He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

"Then come, oh Spirit, from behind   "The curtains of thy radiant home, "If thou wouldst be as angel shrined,   "Or loved and claspt as mortal, come!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the instep with flowers of golde.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington

Nearby, a news conference by the head of Pakistan's parliamentary health committee over the cause of the fire was interrupted by a distraught father clasping his palms together in a plea.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

He beamed at the audience, while clasping his hands together in front of him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

“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

“Dear boy,” he answered, clasping my hands, “I don’t know when we may meet again, and I don’t like good-bye. Say good-night!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens