clutched

Example Sentences

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But defeat has been clutched from the jaws of victory before.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

A gaggle of emotional relatives clutched bouquets of flowers and placards bearing loved-ones' names as prisoners were released from Insein's barbed-wire boundary shortly before noon.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Biery closed his order with a reproduction of the heartbreaking and now-viral photograph of 5-year-old Liam, wearing his blue doggie-eared beanie, his Spider-Man backpack clutched by an immigration agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Director Chloé Zhao clutched her chest as Jacobi Jupe, 12, who plays the titular Hamnet, said, “This film is all about grief and love, and grief is love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

He thought of his empty stomach, the pain in his neck, the cramp in his hand from holding the pencil, which he still clutched.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly