Sentence examples for something to clutch from inspiring English sources

It wasn't consoling, but it gave me something to clutch – a spar in a howling gale.

The thought of going on stage without something to clutch filled me with terror.

When your child is ill or your wife dying," when you are confronted by "the spectacle of a fellow creature in pain or peril, what you want is comfort, reassurance, something to clutch at, were it but a straw.

In places where people are suffering, they become very receptive to ideology because they're looking for something to clutch hold of, a straw that will take them out of that misery".

Have a 'security blanket', something soft to clutch.

It is something of a straw to clutch at but against Spain, you take what you can get.

Something inside me wanted to clutch it to my chest, like a teddy bear or a baby.

Turkeys have an instinct to roost, or to clutch something when they sleep, but on the floor of a crowded room there is no such opportunity.

I can't help but be optimistic that he's inches away from being able to clutch onto something that will pull him out of all this crap that he is dealing with.

John Clare weaves English words into a nest and in the cup he stipples rhyme, like mud, to clutch the shape of something he can hold but not yet hear; and in the hollow of his hearing, he feathers a space with a down of verbs and nouns heads-up.

And at least one student seemed to clutch his stick more like a support tool than something that might one day guide a puck.