Sentence examples for claw about from inspiring English sources

"claw about" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It means to search or dig aggressively with one's hands or claws. Example: The cat clawed about the pile of leaves in search of its favorite toy mouse.

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Gatiss says he chose Blood on Satan's Claw, about a demonically possessed 17th-century English village, "because it was part of that folk horror moment in cinema that includes The Wicker Man.

Ujczo said the Trump administration was never "red in tooth and claw" about radically transforming NAFTA in the first place.

The 2 upper petals are composed of a claw about 3 mm (0.11 in) long and a broadly ovate limb with an acute apex and a cuneate-cordate base.

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Recent examples include "Jaws and Claws," about the relationship between predator and prey, and "Strange Science," about all sorts of bizarre phenomena.

All I know is, I was five and sitting between the comics shelves at Waldenbooks when I decided to read this chapter (it didn't have words), unaware that its final page was a single panel in which the old lady is sitting in an easy chair while the monster-cat looms over her with giant red eyes and huge drippy fangs and claws about to pull her apart, which is actually how the story ended.

Kirchheimer then worked as an editor on industrials and television programs in New York before making his early films Colossus on the River (1963), about the docking of an ocean liner, and Claw (1968), about the rise of glass and steel skyscrapers and the destruction of older buildings in their wake.

Many people find a crab claw dinner, about $40, enough for two.

Typically, these third-party debt-chasers pay 10p for every £1 of debt bought and expect to claw back about 20% of the debt.

But Luxembourg has been a particular target: In 2015, she told the country to claw back about €30 million from a Fiat Chrysler unit, while a case considering Luxembourg's treatment of McDonald's is also continuing.

It comes after a report to creditors on Monday flagged the "attractive" prospect of liquidators trying to claw back about $250m in "uncommercial and director-related" payments including to Palmer's political party and investments in mines, a vintage car collection, golf courses, resorts and the tycoon's ill-fated quest to build a replica of the Titanic.

Two Dorset councils are to merge their services to claw back about £8.5m from their budgets.

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