How To Use Clam up In A Sentence
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A sensitive child is likely just to clam up.
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If midwives jump in and act on confessions, pregnant women are likely to clam up, become reticent about confiding in them or even leave antenatal care.
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This is not to say that you have to clam up totally about your accomplishments - no way!
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Some men are more comfortable one-on-one, and clam up in a crowd.
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Smiley and shmoozy in person, Gibbs had a magic way of reining in priests and lay people, who would invoke her name and clam up when reporters came calling on controversial matters.
Spokeswoman Susan Gibbs leaves the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, one of the busier PR jobs in town
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I either bluster through and waffle away, mumbling on further and further away from the point in hand, or I go to the other extreme and clam up completely.
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Some people willingly open up to her, others clam up, but in every case Anne-Marie feels she's connecting with them in a way she didn't before.
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People on dates usually clam up for fear of saying something stupid.
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A lot of men really clam up and don't get deep on the subject of their feelings, and I think some of them feel that to show their feelings is a sign of weakness… am I right?
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Before he started Graham explained that he didn't want me to feed him information or to completely clam up but to answer yes or no if asked a question.
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Whenever it was time to do an interview I'd clam up because I'd think ‘what if the interviewee thinks I'd just asked a stupid question?’
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Most innocent people, Stone knew, tended to blabber to the cops when questioned, not clam up.
NEW YORK DEAD
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A sensitive child is likely just to clam up.
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If you are interrogating someone, perhaps they will clam up about some interesting questions, but at least you can be precise about what you are asking.
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If the environment's intimidating and suppressive, if it demeans, people tend to clam up.
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Anyone who questioned his actions was portrayed as unpatriotic, a threat that caused many people to clam up.
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This is not to say that you have to clam up totally about your accomplishments - no way!
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I was just beavering away finishing the rest of the songs and almost ignoring what was going on - I didn't want to think about it because I was worried that I'd get writer's block immediately and just clam up.
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If you are interrogating someone, perhaps they will clam up about some interesting questions, but at least you can be precise about what you are asking.
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Don't clam up: your bubbly personality no doubt helped you get here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most innocent people, Stone knew, tended to blabber to the cops when questioned, not clam up.
NEW YORK DEAD
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Or: he'd take one look at the police, realize the jig was up and I was seriously not someone worth messing with, and he'd clam up, recede into his cowardice, and all-too-compliantly-and-deferentially slink out the door.
A Bite-Sized Piece
