Clutching in a sentence

A group of neighbors clutching umbrellas observed from a distance as the river of mud pushed several large logs, a pair of trash cans, basketballs and other objects in all directions.

And finally, when contact can’t be avoided any longer, a rapid series of relationships results in the eros and humor in the rapid shift of hugs/wrestling holds—hand to armpit, head to knee, foot to neck, varieties of spoons, clutching, contortion.

As protesters arrived at Town Hall earlier in the evening, a man clutching an Israeli flag was dragged away by three police officers for 'disrupting the peace' - before he even had a chance to unfurl it.

At a business centre where bodies are being taken for identification, dozens of relatives waited, many weeping and clutching identification cards and pictures of missing loved-ones.

A witness described seeing the man on the ground clutching his arm but the owner and the attacking dog left the scene on foot and have not been identified since.

Blackhawk was a student at McGill when Elijah Harper, clutching his eagle feather, doomed the Meech Lake Accord, and during the Oka Crisis, which saw Mohawk activists face Quebec police and the Canadian army in a seventy-eight-day standoff.

Carmelo Hayes has been attacked and is clutching his knee.

Clutching a $115 bottle of grenache from McLaren Vale vineyard Samuel's Gorge, Edward aimed a kick at his brother as he tried to get in his after leaving the upmarket north shore eatery, says a police statement of facts.

Clutching at his knee, Asofa-Solomona soon headed to the changerooms and while he tried to return to play, was ruled out for the remainder of the match.

Clutching at straws thinking that's a celebration.

Don’t be the Japanese soldier still clutching a bayonet to defend the forgotten atoll in 1960.

Dressed in a dark puffer jacket and navy trousers, he stood silently in the dock, clutching his hat as the evidence was given.

During the interviews, Erin appears to be right-handed, clutching her keys and removing her spectacles with the same hand.

Instead, I staggered out into the bright January morning clutching Helen Jane’s hand.

In the photo, Queen Camilla is pictured beaming at the camera while sitting on a bench in the grounds of garden clutching a trug filled with pelargoniums, reflecting her love for gardening.

It's an emblematic image — a 30-year-old mother clutching her baby and 4-year-old son as Hamas kidnaps them.

Look what I found!” she exclaimed, clutching it tightly against her.

Rayford, clutching his baby daughter, called it an "amazing" feeling to have their records finally wiped clean and their reputations restored.

Speaking at the end of last month, around the third anniversary of Brexit, Mr Sunak seemed to be clutching wildly at straws as he talked about the UK having “forged a path as an independent nation with confidence”.

The answer is No. Now that it is time to prove their allegations of manipulations, both Obi and Atiku are clutching at flotsam to stay afloat.