Sentence examples for is clasped from inspiring English sources
noun
A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
- I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace!
The course and distance calculator is clasped to the side of the fuselage.
The hand does not yield, it does not caress the paper; it is clasped by an iron gauntlet".
His whistle is clasped to his left glove, so Gordon does not have to fumble around for his whistle to stop practice.
Three pigtailed girls drop hankies for the boys, the hunchback rolls in secret communion with the straight woman, and the roué's death is clasped by three aproned graces.
Each shoe is clasped by the elegant fingers of a mannequin's arm, and each disembodied limb is painted the same colour as the shoe in its grip.
That screen is clasped on two sides by an extra slim bezel of just 3.3mm, with LG touting "an industry-leading screen-to-frame ratio of 77.2 percent", showing how marginal form factor design parameters have become if makers are shouting about squeezing more screen onto the slab.
The youth is clasping a decapitated head to his chest.
He is clasping his hands and leaning his head to one side in a pleading gesture.
The book she is clasping is the "Full Collection of Websites," which, presumably, makes her work much easier.
Painted by José Clemente Orozco, a stern Cortés is clasping the hand of the dark-skinned La Malinche.
Cameron added: "He [Miliband] is clasping at straws because he is in a desperate mess on the NHS".
