Sentence examples for clinch that from inspiring English sources

And it's the absence of music – or any sound at all other than the urgent smack of mouth-on-mouth in an illicit clinch – that galvanises the opening of Las Hermanas (The Sisters).

It starts in the middle of things, with a romantic clinch that is full of unclarified references to past and future, and most of the film's action comes in the form of a long flashback, from the perspective of the protagonist (played by Burt Lancaster), within which there is another implicit flashback to a still earlier time.

The two circle each other warily, like wild animals in evening clothes, before a clinch that's one of the most erotic moments in cinema.

Having just wasted 37 words in a semantic clinch that would have Gottlob Frege chewing through his pencil, he moves on to perhaps the best of the bunch.

We want to clinch that second spot".

Federer did clinch that game on a Berdych double fault to serve for the match.

On a couple of occasions she closed into clinches that ended with both boxers wrestling each other to the canvas.

Meyer writes with a PG-13 sensibility: in the earlier books, she skirted clinches that would put an unmarried girl afoul of the censors.

Called "Reflections," it is a tightly knit pas de deux, a thing of spiraling clinches that was danced sumptuously by Christina Fagundes and Alex Lapshin, though marred by a false ending.

And then there is the "hugging and kissing and clinching" that goes with acting out opera's romantic drama, Mr. Gelb said.

Buffini clinches that point: "When the Queen expressed sympathy for the miners' wives, Thatcher suggested that the miners' wives should tell their men to be sensible".