[
US
/ˈkɫətʃəz, ˈkɫətʃɪz/
]
[ UK /klˈʌtʃɪz/ ]
[ UK /klˈʌtʃɪz/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of grasping
he released his clasp on my arm
he has a strong grip for an old man
she kept a firm hold on the railing
How To Use clutches In A Sentence
- Larger species usually lay clutches of one to two eggs, where as smaller accipiters and harriers normally lay clutches of five to six eggs.
- In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche. Blending Fact With Fiction
- The office-bearers have also promised to sustain the movement till the country is freed from the clutches of corruption.
- With a quick pull, Baxorth released his scimitar from the ground's clutches and took a couple steps to his left, toward his agile adversary.
- No school and I was totally free from the clutches of evil Physics and Chemistry professors.
- The gearbox gets over both problems by being two half-gearboxes in one case, with two clutches and two transmission shafts, one inside the other.
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- This entailed entering the proportion of clutches initiated in each month into the Shannon-Wiener diversity formula and then taking the antilog of the diversity value.
- An unidentified woman clutches a mouchoir while writing a sentimental family letter.
- Many other fish species build nests and fertilize large clutches of eggs externally.