Sentence examples for claws extended from inspiring English sources
If you came at the feral-cat advocates with blunt force — with feeding bans or old-fashioned trap-remove-and-kill programs — they would fight, claws extended, in the political arena.
-- The thing looks fearsome enough on the ground, 40 feet from teeth to tail, spikes raised and claws extended, rearing its head as though to give some lacertilian battle call.
No shrimp scampi has been handled as gently or luxuriously as Carbone's chorus line of langoustines, claws extended, bodies split and slick with butter that implies garlic without coming right out and saying it.
It will not look up and out; instead, it will, claws extended, shield itself from indignity or worse.
If the thing that is making the cat uncomfortable is not dealt with, and the cat sees no escape route, then she may hiss, spit and, as a last resort, lash out with her claws extended.
With long, curved front claws (extending from large paws), it digs toward and rips open a nest of bees or termites.
The giant sloth was herbivorous but nonetheless a fearsome creature — eight feet tall when standing on its hind legs, with long arms, and long claws extending from its padded feet.
After spending six weeks designing, building and debugging robots that could weigh as much as 130 pounds and measure up to 30 by 36 by 60 inches with telescoping arms and claws extending 10 feet high, they had 12 rounds to qualify for the championships in a frenetic contest of minds and machines set up to resemble a sports event.
He is a brutal and sadistic henchman of Magneto, and wields claws extending past each finger.
As the Dryline meets Battery Park, the berm is planned to return, forming a series of grassy knolls that slope down to a potential new multi-fingered waterfront building, like a blocky claw extended to baffle the tides.
The relative sizes of chelicerae vary widely: those of some fossil eurypterids and modern harvestmen form large claws that extended ahead of the body, while scorpions' are tiny pincers that are used in feeding and project only slightly in front of the head.
