Sentence examples for clinch as from inspiring English sources

It is an unerotic clinch: as intimate as dancing.

ROMA FAILS TO CLINCH: AS Roma's fans have waited 18 years for an Italian League championship.

The referee pulled us out of a clinch as everyone mumbled that it looked awful, whatever the locale.

Just look at the stupid rules for overtime: the defeatist ball draw (in which, roughly, a wrestler draws a colored ball to determine his or her position) and the unfair "clinch" (as it's called); these are such bad rules that people who don't know wrestling can't understand them, even when I explain them.

The ad – in which a young couple meet on the dance floor, click, then end up in a bedside clinch as the screen fades to black – is striking for being, well, a tad coy for a brand that not so long ago regularly courted controversy with ads such as one using inflated condoms to spell out the name Roger More.

They work in the clinch as the round comes to an end.

His chest heaved and his left fist clinched as deep, snorting sounds emanated from his mouth".

Its success was clinched as much by the Spanish launch of the Ford Escort as by Hopkins's ability to keep adapting proven skills.

It is an unerotic clinch, yet as intimate as dancing.

TBILISI, Georgia — Word that scorpions had been sighted on her street clinched it, as far as Nana Beniashvili was concerned.

Three A.F.C. divisions — the East, the North and the West — could easily be clinched next weekend, as could the N.F.C. South.