Sentence examples for it clutched from inspiring English sources

You may have seen it, clutched in Mr. Jacksons fists and looped around Christina Riccis bare midriff, in advertisements for this movie.

Suddenly it hits him: rather than leave the precious billet in his locker while he was in the operating theatre, he had it clutched in the palm of his left hand, secure under the tight surgical glove.

Our objective was one of the swimming pools that Carlos had mentioned; Roberto had told me in São Paulo to bring my bathing suit along, and now I had it clutched under my arm, wrapped in a hotel towel.

While he proudly sported his new James jersey around summer league, he didn't feel the need to wear his No. 24 underneath or have it clutched in his hands, though he kept it close.

It clutched a bottle of something pink, and someone else reached down to grab it with the kind of urgency seen in an old monster flick, when the doctor with the bubbly antidote arrives just in time.

In a series of letters to his son Alex published in The New York Times magazine in 1997, he responded to a question about memories of the war with a dose of hopeful truth: As for 'clutching' the memory of what happened in France, I would say that it clutched me.

His own interpretation was that "humanity is normally opposed to progress; instead, it clutches with tenacity to the customs and fetishes of its ancestors".

Her new novel, "The Goldfinch" (Little, Brown), is a virtual baby: it clutches and releases the most fantastical toys.

Now the tree rises while she, right before it, clutches the ballet's tiny protagonist to her heart.

The air has signature notes of petrol, diesel and other hydrocarbons, and it clutches the throat with steely fingers.

Then there was the time at an airport in Paris when a teenager grabbed his leg and pressed her head into it, clutching desperately.