Sentence examples for clamp from inspiring English sources
The word 'clamp' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the action of grasping something firmly or tightly, for example: "He clamped his hands around the baseball."
noun
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
Alexander also used his Commons statement to outline plans to clamp down on tax evasion.
At last the regulators are planning to clamp down on nuisance phone calls and "hold executives to account".
It documents a series of practices marked "agreed" to clamp down on so-called "non-compliant" asylum seekers, which have been criticised by professor Louise Newman one of Australia's foremost experts in mental health as "very dangerous".
For Ibrahim, the government's response was another myopic and selfish attempt to curry favour with religious right-wing elements, which represent a growing electorate base for the ruling party, and another "deliberate attempt to provoke religious tensions to give a pretext to clamp down on civil liberties and justify the continuation of the same old race-based policies of the past".
It comes alongside dire warnings that new rules to clamp down on irresponsible mortgage lending could actually close the door to thousands of prospective homebuyers.
The NHS body also advised midwives not to clamp and cut a baby's umbilical cord until at least a minute after birth in the absence of complications, and generally within five minutes.
In the past month there have been efforts to clamp down on the exploitation of migrant children working as porters at the market, but the problem persists.
Clegg also admitted that some European Union nations such as Ireland were making it harder to reach an international agreement to clamp down on avoidance.
We clamp the leather in a wooden vice, a "stitching clam", and using an awl (a small knife) we make holes in the leather along the marks – needles alone aren't enough.
It would be far better for the prime minister to clamp his wobbly jaws on the bullet and to take RBS and Lloyds/HBOS into full public ownership.
One of the reasons cited by the bank for last year's bonus rises was a doubling in the rate of departures in the investment bank, particularly in the US, following an attempt to clamp down on bonuses after the Libor crisis.
