clutch at
Example Sentences
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Webbed claws clutch at a rock, and slowly, awkwardly, the creature lifts her rounded, barrel-like body out of the river.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Ten, fifteen, or twenty at a time would clutch at the tape, as it streamed out with its endless lines of quotations,” Miller wrote in the Chicago Tribune of Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
"There is not a lot of help out there at the moment, so you clutch at straws."
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
Cold air, often pooled near the ground, seemed to clutch at our ankles and perhaps make us wonder whether longer socks might be in order.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2022
If I felt the gaff’s hold was uncertain, I would let go of it—I had not forgotten to secure it with a rope to the raft—and I would clutch at the fish with my hands.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
