Sentence examples for clasp to from inspiring English sources

Brooch, ornamental pin, usually with a clasp to attach it to a garment.

He proposed to attach a clasp to the top of the dog's tail from which would hang a small plastic bag — "a feed bag in reverse," as an acquaintance of his put it.

Celine has several highly covetable bags, such as the soft leather "cabas" and the equally protean, small but perfectly formed "classic" with its brushed gold clasp, to name but two.

After a few drearily uneventful years in which the committee doled out the gong to artists the public had either already clasped to their hearts or would go on to clasp to their hearts – Franz Ferdinand, Dizzee Rascal, Arctic Monkeys, Elbow – last year saw the Mercury prize happily return to its traditional role as the music industry's equivalent of the black spot.

The distance from the center of the X to the diamond's peak shows that the nucleotide pairs, the A's and T's and the C's and G's that clasp to form the genetic instructions, are spaced 0.34 nanometers apart -- 10 letters per turn in DNA's spiraling cipher.

"The Greatest Happiness," reads one such missive, "is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters".

A chart invasion was duly predicted, but the mainstream public has persistently declined to clasp grime to its delicate bosom.

It had been clasped to their kitchen window.

What better than to have a symbol of American capitalism clasped to Russia's bosom?

The course and distance calculator is clasped to the side of the fuselage.

Another messenge got on, also with his hat clasped to his heart.