clasp
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They’re in shock over the news they’ve just received as their hands come together and clasp tightly, realizing that a major battle is coming sooner rather than later.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
The devices, made by London-based Greyparrot, use artificial intelligence to identify recyclables, flag food-grade material, gauge items’ mass, assess market value and calculate points at which a robotic claw might best clasp each piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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
But Pegula's clasp of her head after they blew an 8-4 lead in the first-to-10 match tie-break summed up their bitter disappointment at missing a shot for the trophy.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
"I shall leave the clasp undone," she said.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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
In the video, one of the woman’s young daughters whimpers and the other clasps tightly to her distraught, Mickey ears headband-wearing mother while begging strangers for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Six small clasps that hold the iron pieces in the medals are a wink at the 2.5 million rivets that bind the Eiffel Tower together.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
“It’s useless,” Alec finally said when his hands slipped off the clasps for the third time.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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
Guarded by elite army commandos, their mascot Aloka -- a stray dog rescued in India -- walked on a leash, drawing bows and clasped hands from devotees lining the route.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Some clasped their hands together, while others prostrated themselves.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Eunhee could hardly get her words out through sobs as her teenage son clasped his hand to his mouth.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Once she was seated with both palms flat against the ground, Badwa clasped her hands.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Bow me durst I not——————-Bever'd I and shook when that baron claspt me . . . . . . . . . —————- but dar'd I not to bow me earthward .
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never claspt; but bred a dog.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
She knew me, and acknowledged me her heir, Pray'd me to pay her debts, and keep the Faith: Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
But the youngest Goddess claspt the Ball to her breast.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
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
His brothers and wife, clasping hands, sat in the first row watching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
Professor Achara kept glancing down, clasping and unclasping his hands.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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