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Clenching in a sentence

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Clenching meaning

present participle and gerund of clench

Using Clenching

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of clench
  • In the example corpus, clenching often appears in combinations such as: clenching my, clenching his, seen clenching.

Context around Clenching

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Clenching

  • In this selection, "clenching" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, seen, court, knife, fear, temperatures and wave stand out and add context to how "clenching" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a gut clenching fear and aren t clenching in horror. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "clenching" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with clenching

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Remember that fist-clenching wave of rage you felt? (9 words)

I have cracked a molar from clenching my jaw during a session. (12 words)

The muscular pain is frequently, but not always, associated with daytime clenching or nocturnal bruxism. (15 words)

I'm able to target specific acne trouble areas, which has reduced the number of flareups I have, and I've noticed that the pain I feel from grinding and clenching has greatly decreased since using the percussive attachments regularly. (40 words)

Once she’d completed her list of symptoms — worry, anxiety, irritability, feeling flat or uninspired, being self-critical, clenching or grinding your teeth and more — only one or two women in the room of about 300 remained standing. (38 words)

Plath had described the quality of her despair as "owl's talons clenching my heart." citation In his 1971 book on suicide, friend and critic Al Alvarez claimed that Plath's suicide was an unanswered cry for help. (38 words)

Remember that fist-clenching wave of rage you felt? (9 words)

Example sentences (18)

As the buzzer sounded, Caruso bounded off the court, clenching his fists as he tipped his head back and let out a scream.

I encourage you to practice the words before you sit with her so you aren’t clenching in horror at such an uncomfortable subject.

I took her hand in mine, and guided it towards the blade shaft of the shucking knife, clenching it tightly.

Passengers were first seen clenching to the surrounding seats as tremors rocket through the passenger hold.

Before she arrived, she’d been in a “state of clenching,” she said, but this forest therapy walk in the Butte Creek Ecological Reserve left her feeling calmer.

He was seen clenching his fists and saying he was going to kill Terry and had also threatened his girlfriend’s parents, threatening to fire bomb their home.

I'm able to target specific acne trouble areas, which has reduced the number of flareups I have, and I've noticed that the pain I feel from grinding and clenching has greatly decreased since using the percussive attachments regularly.

But I’m gripping and releasing, gripping and releasing my hands in rhythm with clenching my jaw as I think about the lists I need to make and the events I must control to get through holidays.

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I have cracked a molar from clenching my jaw during a session.

Teddy and Bailey talk about their kids going out for Halloween, as Miranda says she has other things to worry about and it is clear she is clenching her tongue to the top of her mouth.

There are times when I feel an unbearable sweetness upon reading these lines, and there are times when I feel a gut-clenching fear.

Many Northeast residents endured jaw-clenching temperatures and brutal wind chills on Saturday as cleanup continued from the storm that dropped as much as 18 inches of snow in some places on Thursday.

Once she’d completed her list of symptoms — worry, anxiety, irritability, feeling flat or uninspired, being self-critical, clenching or grinding your teeth and more — only one or two women in the room of about 300 remained standing.

Remember that fist-clenching wave of rage you felt?

An example for an isometric exercise of the wrist is done by clenching the fist tightly, releasing and fanning out fingers.

Dropping the salute typically entails snapping the saluting hand to the side and clenching the fist, then dropping both arms to the sides.

Plath had described the quality of her despair as "owl's talons clenching my heart." citation In his 1971 book on suicide, friend and critic Al Alvarez claimed that Plath's suicide was an unanswered cry for help.

The muscular pain is frequently, but not always, associated with daytime clenching or nocturnal bruxism.

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Common combinations with clenching

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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Clenching means: present participle and gerund of clench
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