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Discover LudwigThe word "Clutching" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of grasping or holding something tightly. Example: "She was clutching her purse tightly as she walked through the crowded street."
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Clutching
noun
The act of one who clutches.
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Salmond will argue to his dying days – no doubt clutching a copy of a Guardian article from March 2014 which quoted an anonymous UK minister saying that "of course" a currency union would be formed – that the chancellor's intervention amounted to "bluff, bluster and bullying".
Families who have been processed and released to join relatives while they wait for their court hearings still arrive in droves at the Sacred Heart Catholic church hall in downtown McAllen clutching A4 manilla envelopes containing official notices about their cases.
They showed a carefree schoolgirl, at her confirmation, in carnival dress, and then in an open casket flanked by candles, laid out in a white dress, clutching flowers.. "People will ask 'why now, so many years later?' said Anan, who was 16 when her aunt was killed.
"Prince!" she gasped, clutching her award as he left the stage.
She had first found Ethel clutching her swollen belly, severely malnourished.
But Fremantle may have paid a high price for the win with tall utility Zac Clarke taken from the ground in the final term clutching his left knee.
Uruguay v Argentina would normally be a pick-of-the-bunch game but with Argentina's progress long since secured and Uruguay clutching at the longest of straws, it looks like Oscar Tabarez's team are resigned to another quirky inter-confederation play-off to haul themselves to Brazil.
No, it's a gaggle of punters clutching suitcases and copies of David Torrance's biography of the First Minister... they say they've come north to live on the strength of Nicola Sturgeon's performance in last night's television debate.
I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes.
Diablo Cody, legs tucked daintily beneath her on the sofa in a hotel facing the Pacific Ocean, and clutching a cup of coffee, is talking about how celebrity makes some people crazy and mean.
Dean looked as sinister and glassy-eyed as the teddy bear he was clutching.
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