Sentence examples for claw over from inspiring English sources

Opposing factions go at each other, tooth and claw, over every issue where the public would want them to compromise.

The claw is retracted or extended by pivoting the end bone of the toe, which bears the claw, over the tip of the next bone.

American consumers, who spent a year watching Congress scratch and claw over sweeping health care legislation, can now try to figure out what the overhaul would mean for them.

The closest thing we have to a Heathers-style predatory face-off are the alpha girls of ABC, Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, who claw over Yasir Arafat instead of the captain of the football team.

Elizabeth Lopez maneuvered a massive steel claw over the side of a 134-foot sailboat and guided its descent through swaying kelp and schools of fish 10 miles off the coast of San Diego.

Position the claw over the selected toy.

Buried in all this invention there is a small but telling historical point -- that the Britain of the real King Arthur was, far from being a place of civilized courts like Camelot, a primitive backwater, for a while an outpost of Rome and then clawed over by warring tribes.

Roll the dough and butter together, then break up the mass with your fingers and claw at it over and over, until it breaks up and the butter starts to work in.

"I feel the bear has been tamed, and the worst of the clawing is over," he said.

Human beings are always clawing over each other to get on top.

Turn the bodies and claws over and cook for a further 2 minutes.