CLASP in a Sentence
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176 example sentences for CLASP, such as:
1. He clasped my arm with fear.
2. I stood there, clasping the door handle.
3. She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.
4. Wildeve had resisted the impulse to clasp her, and stood without speaking.
5. Louisa raised the hand that it might clasp her neck and join its fellow there.
2. I stood there, clasping the door handle.
3. She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.
4. Wildeve had resisted the impulse to clasp her, and stood without speaking.
5. Louisa raised the hand that it might clasp her neck and join its fellow there.
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Meanings and Examples of CLASP
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clasp
n. fastening device; firm grip
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1 Louisa raised the hand that it might clasp her neck and join its fellow there.
2 He availed himself of his enlargement to throw himself on the pavement, and clasp the knees of Front-de-Boeuf.
3 The Knight undid the clasp of the baldric, and indulged his fellow-traveller, who immediately hung the bugle round his own neck.
4 Till at last he began to rouse and become aware of his defenceless nakedness, and she was aware that his body was loosening its clasp on her.
5 To clasp as his for five minutes what was another man's through all the rest of the year was a kind of thing he of all men could appreciate.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
6 Wildeve had resisted the impulse to clasp her, and stood without speaking.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
7 A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8 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 forever.
9 So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.
10 I saw her stand where he had left her, like a statue; and then bend down her head, and clasp her hands, and weep, I cannot say how sorrowfully.
11 She would clasp me round the neck and laugh, the while, as if I did it for a wager.
12 She turned round on her chair, flushed crimson, and rapidly moving her fingers, pinched the clasp of her belt first with one hand and then with the other.
13 I advance and recognise a little Troy, and a copy of the great Pergama, and a dry brook with the name of Xanthus, and clasp a Scaean gateway.
14 My heart burned with youthful passion to accost him and clasp hand in hand; I made my way to him, and led him eagerly to Pheneus' high town.
15 They meet and clasp hands, and, sitting down within the house, at length enjoy unchecked converse.
Example Sentence:
1 When the clasp on Judy's bracelet broke, Fred repaired it, bending the hook back into shape.
2 He clasped my arm with fear.
3 She clasped her bag tightly as she walked through the crowd.
4 "Don't you remember? You WON'T tell, WILL you, Joe?" And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.
5 I stood there, clasping the door handle.