The word "claw" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to the physical object--the curved, pointed part of an animal's foot. For example, "The eagle's claw was powerful enough to break the branch."
If we look at the 28 seats the Lib Dems are projected to lose, eight are to Labour and 10 to the SNP: To make a difference to the overall scores between the blocs, the Lib Dems would need to claw back most of these.
Pharmaceutical companies have to try different versions, and then claw back the costs for all this research.
At an open meeting, a senior manager long in tooth and claw, said: "Looking at the NSS results, I am ashamed to work at this place".
Osborne is trying to claw his way back.
Let's run through a typical example, level-by-level … On the ground floor: endless rows of what the Japanese call "UFO grabbers" – those familiar fairground games in which you make a doomed attempt to grab an underwhelming prize using a mechanised claw.
The government will also claw back payments to the states for hospitals and cut funds previously earmarked for preventive health.
As it published its annual report for 2013, Lloyds said it would claw back more bonuses from previous years as a result of near £10bn of provisions it has been forced to set aside to cover the cost of mis-selling payment protection insurance.
You have to squeeze in, claw your way along the seafood display, order by weight at the bar, balance your teetering stack, and eat standing up under a bull's head and framed matador snaps.
Now, as we claw our way out of a recession that forced many to embrace a "less is more" lifestyle, Nicodemus and Millburn have captured a moment of backlash against the endless, mindless accumulation of stuff.
Despite taking no further legal action, the council still plans to claw back £60,170.34 of its legal costs incurred defending itself against Khan's claim.
Is he hiding some kind of claw in there?
