Sentence examples for clamp shut from inspiring English sources

She is her own woman, fiercely independent and outspoken, able to clamp shut like an oyster.

Then, suddenly, his lips clamp shut and his eyes glint, like a toad that has swallowed a dragonfly.

This is because the anal sphincter is likely to clamp shut at the first sign of pain or anxiety.

It happens in the blink of an eye: your breathing muscles contract, your vocal cords clamp shut and out comes that unmistakable sound: "hic".

"The patients are just desperate," said Mattie Lou Koster, president of an organization that helps victims of blepharospasm, a disorder in which the eyelids clamp shut involuntarily for periods lasting from a few seconds to several minutes.

Droseraceae, the sundew or Venus flytrap family, contains species with leaves modified as real traps i.e., active mechanisms that clamp shut or coil about victims lured by nectar secretions and delicate odours.

Montsho's mouth was clamped shut.

But then the borders clamped shut and the fruit rotted.

His teeth clamped shut and squeaked against each other.

The whole contraption clamped shut with a Velcro belt.

It was his eyes clamping shut that first prompted Keith Swankie to talk to his doctor.