Sentence examples for in its claw from inspiring English sources

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw".

You'll know Mr. Randazzo by the bling around his neck: a gold lobster clutching a diamond in its claw.

A Sacculina barnacle enters a host crab by finding a chink in its claw joints.

His crest, featuring a Liver bird holding an acoustic guitar in its claw, reflects his background in Liverpool and his musical career.

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An animal has caught me, it has me in its claws Someone, someone, save Save me, someone, for I die.

"And he had a tattoo on his shoulder that showed an eagle, with a ribbon in its claws, and on it the saying 'Knowledge Is Power.' " As a child, Curtis spoke Hungarian at home, and he didn't learn English until he was almost five, when he went to school.

At Page-Turner, Teju Cole, who was also in Nairobi for the festival, wrote about the "uncanny prophetic force" of Awoonor's poetry ("What has not happened before? / An animal has caught me, / it has me in its claws / Someone, someone, save / Save me, someone, / for I die"), and about attending a memorial for the poet at Nairobi's National Museum.

Sometimes the phrasemaking is devastatingly simple – "I am slow at crossing borders/ But once there I try to offer unconditional love," he sings on Two – but often it whispers by without sinking in its claws, and you think: just slow down, and speak up.

It pins small prey down with its front paws while devouring it, and jumps onto larger prey, sinking in its claws and closing its jaws around the neck.

With the journeys in its claws.

"That one caught a rider in its claws".

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