Sentence examples for he clammed up from inspiring English sources

He clammed up like a noir desk clerk.

Then he clammed up, frozen and flabbergasted by his own outburst.

He clammed up, implying that he could not talk because his companion in the car that day was a married woman.

"What happened was he clammed up, and after we had obtained actionable intelligence from him, that's when the F.B.I. folks on the ground then read him his Miranda rights," he said.

(Tyler's rendition of the phone call that set this book in motion: "Hey, Dad! What's up?" "Rivers of blood!") She captured a few hours of his recollections on videotape, although he clammed up again when he got to the subject of Italy, where something awful apparently happened.

After that he clammed up and referred me to Twitter.

But then when it comes to the crunch, he clams up and the movie rather clams up on his behalf.

When I ask about the allegations, he clams up and begins to mumble.

And then he clams up because there's nothing arty-farty about Peter Cattaneo.

So it still feels strange when he clams up at the inevitable questions about his famous collaborators: "I can be fairly quiet".

"I wasn't the only one disappointed; Irrfan was shocked and so was Karan [Johar, Bollywood super-producer]." He clams up, not keen to reignite what became a vindictive public spat between him and the FFA, one which ended in him apologising to the body last year.