Sentence examples for its clutches from inspiring English sources

In stories that acknowledge the activity of the egg, it is cast in the role of femme fatale, snagging the hapless sperm and dragging it into its clutches.

​"Amy" is clever and solidly constructed, no question, and, having grabbed you, it refuses to slacken its clutches.

It has a thousand faces, Caes, all of them just ready to reform into unhappiness once it has you in its clutches".

For a clear sense of what the Republican Party has in store for the entire country, were it able to get its clutches on all the levers of power, North Carolina is becoming an increasingly illuminating place to look.

And although before Mobil was acquired by Exxon, they had policies to protect discrimination against gay men and lesbians, and even offered benefits to same-sex couples, Exxon took that all away once it had Mobil in its clutches in 1999.

If you are already in its clutches, don't despair: it's not too late to turn around, walk away and never look back.

If the government is slowly loosening its clutch on athletes' professional lives, it is less willing to give up financial control.

If its Airbus work (half its sales) were hived off into a separate company (eventually to be floated), it would be left only with its clutch of helicopter, space and missile businesses, mostly in partnership with Dasa.

It features picturesque Sherborne in the north-west, with its clutch of medieval buildings and abbey, and the glorious Elizabethan manor, Mapperton House (01308 862 645; mapperton.com; entry £6) near Beaminster – where Carey Mulligan and Tom Sturridge spent time filming.

The first is no disaster – its clutch of awards and the fact that my mum likes it is incontrovertible evidence of that.

The '55 gets its clutch adjusted.