The word "clasp" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as a verb or noun. For example, "She clasped the necklace around her neck and smiled."
The flower buds, like milky pearls held in the green clasp of its pointed green sepals, held aloft on a four-inch stalk, were still closed.
Written by two independent experts from Rome's Sapienza University, the 145-page DNA review rubbishes the work of Patrizia Stefanoni, the police forensic scientist who found Knox's and Kercher's DNA on a kitchen knife at Sollecito's house and identified DNA belonging to Sollecito on a torn bra clasp found beside Kercher's semi-naked body.
Turning to the bra clasp, the report concludes that since it had been at the crime scene for 46 days before being collected, it was vulnerable to contamination.
After discovering there was no DNA left to check on the knife or the bra clasp, the experts retraced the steps taken by Stefanoni, concluding that the DNA trace of Kercher on the blade was so weak it could not be reliably matched – or was at best the result of contamination – and quoted Stefanoni admitting in court she should have double-tested her result to be more convincing.
Many of these onlookers clasp hand-made placards in their mittens, from which scream out, in felt-pen letters, the names of their home towns: Ishpeming, Michigan!
The threads are then fixed together using a small clasp, rather than being tied, and the loose thread is cut.
One of her proudest finds is a volume of funeral orations for Duke August of Saxony and his wife, dating from 1588, complete with its original vellum binding and clasp, which she bought for a mere €845 on eBay last December.
But Iraqis still need to try harder to clasp hands across sectarian barriers.
He was given a dove to clasp and told to release it at the moment when the words "...the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove" were intoned.
No longer.Of the 21 Latin American presidents whose hands President Jacques Chirac of France will clasp in Rio, no fewer than seven sport a degree from a university in the United States.
In their sharp-sightedness, if not much else, here were two men who could clasp each other appreciatively by the hand.
