Используйте «clutch at» в предложении
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clutch at
1. Her fingers clutch at the bedclothes convulsively, clinging to their reality as her memory took her back
2. His hands clutch at my shirt and I am removing it and then I remember, I remember that I am small and flat-chested and sickly pale, and I pull back
3. All she could do was clutch at Talus and hope this wild journey was soon over
4. The branches of the closest trees seemed to clutch at him as he burst from their grasp,
5. ” the visitor's attempted bitch slap feebled into a beseeching clutch at the closing door she believed she had sought for a long time
6. A last couplet floated through her brain,--her brain seemed to clutch at it:
7. clutch at the fabric of his shirt along his ribs
8. The plants scratch our faces, and we clutch at prickly branches; the cold water bites our ankles as our boots sink into the mud
9. The bushes tear at our clothes, their branches clutch at our legs
10. This way: instead of living and feeling pain… you can barely exist; and not have to feel or notice the millions of starving beggars who clutch at your robes of affluence, and privilege
11. Religion is not a frill or an ornament or a luxury; still less is it a thing to clutch at only in danger or in heartbreak
12. He seemed to clutch at everything and smiled coldly when he recognised it, for he had fully made up his mind to go to the police station and knew that it would all soon be over
13. Some of them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even
14. Jo wouldn't be put into the opera at any price, and he had to give her up with a "Bless that girl, what a torment she is!" and a clutch at his hair, as became a distracted composer
15. Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object
16. As she came abreast the crowd something of their tenseness reached her, insensitive though she was, and made fear clutch at her heart
17. Some of them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even pleasant
18. But this—watching criminal kill criminal, seeing Ciere’s calculation, knowing that she played a role in that man’s death—it churns his stomach until he wants to double over and clutch at himself
19. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its retreat
20. Juvenal Urbino’s time of life, that night at the film, men blossomed in a kind of autumnal youth, they seemed more dignified with their first gray hairs, they became witty and seductive, above all in the eyes of young women, while their withered wives had to clutch at their arms so as not to trip over their own
21. A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach
22. them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even pleasant…
23. “Why is it worth while speaking to a clever man? What did he mean by that?” The thought seemed suddenly to clutch at his breathing
24. Convicts are as credulous as children; they know the news to be false, or most unlikely, and that the fellow who brings it is a past master in the art of lying, Kvassoff; for all that they clutch at the nonsensical story, go into high delight over it, are much consoled, and at last quite ashamed to have been duped by a Kvassoff
25. Everybody has been rolling downhill, and every one has known for ages that they have nothing to clutch at
26. No, in Europe they wouldn't understand it yet, but that's just what we shall clutch at