- present participle of clasp.
clasping
Example Sentences
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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
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
The children sat on wooden benches bouncing their legs, clasping their hands and anxiously looking around the brightly lit courtroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
The circles went round and round, all the skirts going one way and all the boots going the other way, and hands clasping and parting high up in the air.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
