Sentence examples for claw out from inspiring English sources

One reason this was considered so entertaining: the possibility that it would claw out a competitor's eye.

You would do a lot to claw out some space to manifest that your marriage was important.

The job losses went through, this executive left, and the bank today is still trying to claw out from its uncontrolled excess.

As Steven Nelnick, a senior vice president for 20th Century Fox Television, the studio that makes Empire, puts it (in a way that makes you want to claw out your own eyes and sink them in a glass of Coke): "You have a real brand anointing a fictional artist in a commercial directed by the creator of the series appearing as himself.

Hennessey did well to claw out Wheater's header, but he was powerless to stop Alonso bundling home after David Ngog's header bounced back off the bar.

Those dollars have helped fuel its effort to claw out a place in an industry dominated by giants such as Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Nortel.

On one side, an eagle reaches its claws out toward a big red apple.

They descended with their claws out, then decided that she was too big to carry off.

They clawed out a 9-4 record in their first 13 games without Cleaves, who was out with a fractured foot.

The man, identified by the police and the District Attorney's Office as Chad Potter, 26, "tried clawing out my eyes and bit me," Thomas said.

(Many recent nominations, including those of Carter and Mondale, were not settled by the primaries and caucuses, and had to be clawed out before the Convention).