How To Use Claw In A Sentence
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He shut his eyes, fingers clawing at the rock below him.
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I instead made use of the Cluebat and asked Mike for an insight check, which revealed that the Crane's claw was still over the pool and that Vorian (Mike's monk) was within walking distance of the crane's controls.
Critical Hits
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They were picked up too, and brought into hangars by metal claws on strong wires.
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Then again, kitty probably avulsed a a claw or two and was sore for a while.
Because I Am a Bad Bad Person… « Whatever
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No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs.
CHAPTER XVI
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A cat can retract its claws, but a dog can't.
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April 2, 2010 at 10:18 am afinkso teh hooman haz onlee hizseff tew blaim fer leevin teh ‘baloonz’ wifin reech uv poyntee teef an clawz!
Iz THIS wai u were so mad - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Once finished, a titan claws its way from the ground and starts off on a tear towards your enemy's town, where it slaughters anything in its path.
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Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
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His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips.
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The first of the threads snaps as my claw slices through it, severing it.
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One night, after a Piranha editing session, Cameronwent to sleep with afever and dreamed that he saw a robot clawing itsway toward a coweringwoman.
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They will fight tooth and claw to protect Cheryl.
The Sun
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The government are clawing back age allow ances in tax.
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Benedettini clawed the ball out with his right hand, but a linesman raised his flag to indicate a goal.
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The dragon roared and forced its claws in and ripped its hole wider in an attempt to force its way into the town.
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The skin is not only tough but also loose, allowing it to squirm free from its attackers, and fight back with long claws and sharp teeth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The actual investment itself had to be for a period of five years if a clawback of the tax relief is to be avoided.
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I was engaged in the delicate task of clipping the dog's claws.
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This includes reductions to bonuses and unvested awards and clawback where warranted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
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Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
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People who are anti-declawing generally are not all that educated on the actual facts, because the anti-declaw community is incredibly vocal compared to the rest of us.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia
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Sure enough, after the four plantigrade toes, he went for the dewclaw.
Grouse Diary Entry
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Her mistress, the lover of books and words, enjoyed the garden the most, sitting on the marble seat, admiring the green-blue-brown scenery with the simulated breeze stirring the bodhi leaves and crab-claw red heliconia.
COG-WORK CAT • by Joyce Chng
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Tooth claw assembling must tighten the nuts and note don't short-shipped spring washers.
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Gala clawed back three points almost immediately with the only penalty goal of the match thanks to stand-off Andy McLean.
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Growling and sweating the ursine fellow untied the knot, picking at it with clumsy claws, then reeled her down fast.
A TIME OF WAR
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The zombies clawed at the motorcade for a while, but you know how it is when you're playing to an empty hall - your performance is bound to lack conviction.
Courageous park police save Lincoln Memorial from zombies
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Put your foot down and it sprouts teeth and claws.
Times, Sunday Times
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She started clawing at the mattress until she broke it open and scattered the fluffy insides all over the cell.
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Having presided with his president over the first-ever downgrading of the debt his department issues, Mr. Geithner hied to Wroclaw, Poland, to share his wisdom with the assembled European finance ministers, who pointed out that the euro zone is less indebted than the U.S. and not well placed to warn them, as Mr. Geithner did, of the danger of dependence on foreign creditors.
Aggregating Conceals Some Important Facts
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The gryphons 'claws clicked metallically on the marble floor, and the bulk of the Palace muffled the sounds of the crowd outside.
Widows and Orphans
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With its long claws, the zorilla digs feverishly after the prize, alternately sinking its nose into the ground until it comes up munching.
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This one hatched faster than the first, fierce little claws punching through the fragile shell and scrabbling to get free.
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The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
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The limbs are only moderately long, and the feet are narrow, with four main digits and short claws.
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Coleoptera; the bifid pseudotarsi between the claws: used also as = pulvillus; and see arolium, onychium, palmula, paronychium, plantula, pseudonychium and pulvillus.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Teh cyoot littdlol rackettycoons……butt ! await ! foar deaths awaitz u awl wif nasty bigg pointee teef! adn clawsers too !
Look at us, just look - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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In the garage he found a claw hammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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His claws extend involuntarily and the hair on his neck rises.
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Then he notes the telltale faint imprints of claws.
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Shops need to claw back lost custom from the warm autumn so will offer huge festive discounts.
The Sun
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The 'clawback' measures allow banks to recoup bonuses that turn out to have been unmerited.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard to imagine the pressure clawing away at Bruce.
Times, Sunday Times
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He chased his tail and ate May's ferns, and sharpened his tiny claws on the kitchen chair legs, and left a light layer of ginger fur everywhere he went.
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September 20, 2007 in craptastic, rants, television reviews the first 14 minutes of the Bionic Woman have been posted online, click below to watch, but be warned, you will probably want to claw your eyes out, even if there are no bionic eyes with which to replace them. it is a pretty horrible 14 minutes.
The first 14 minutes of The Bionic Woman…oy. « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
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Simmer to infuse for five minutes and acid the lobster tails and claws.
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In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop ourselves from cartwheeling down the mountain.
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Bold teal paint livens up this cottagey children's bathroom where it covers a vintage clawfoot tub, old-fashioned sink and walls above crisp white paneling.
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One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.
Conan The Invincible
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Add coriander and when wilted, slip the crab claws under the liquid.
Times, Sunday Times
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The larl stroked my cheek with his great, smooth paw, the ivory claws hooded but quivering slightly, as if about to awake.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
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How can nature be comforting and at the same time red in tooth and claw?
Times, Sunday Times
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That cat will scratch you with its claws.
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The politician clawed his rival
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And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Frozen in space, they clawed at the air.
Man of Honour
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Martin honed his expertise of various banjo styles, such as "three-finger" picking, made famous by Scruggs, and "clawhammer" - also known as "frailing" - a style known for its syncopated rhythms and distinct melodic phrasing that employs the back of the fingernails to strike or strum the strings, and a thumb technique that alternates between the strings.
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The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
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A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their favorite cat clawed a hole in my stocking.
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The hands have been cantilevered to feel light, so one moment they are delicate as butterfly wings, the next they're as terrifying as unsheathed claws.
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To cite a familiar instance, the teeth of the chalicotheres have a general adaptive resemblance to the titanotheres, the skull and neck to the horses, the claws to the edentates.
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These animals had two functional toes on their forefeet and one on their hindfeet, each with hoof-like claws.
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In their search for food, most of which is comprised of burrowing rodents, badgers tear up large areas of earth with powerful digging claws on their forefeet.
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The cat purred and slowly closed her eyes, sticking her claws back into his stomach to find a better perch.
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He placed a claw against her lips, his face a map of exhaustion, but with a gentle smile.
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It will probably feel like clawing his way back up a cliff.
Times, Sunday Times
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When our cat is hungry, she starts clawing at my legs.
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He still wore green-brown clothes, but they weren't torn, and his fur was golden and his claws much more straight.
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Benson clawed his way back into the lead.
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Your parents search for you in the crowd of plebes clawing up Herndon Monument in a greasy, glorious finale.
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They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
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A horrendous smirk of a smile polluted Jen's bruised face as her fingers sharpened into pointed razor claws.
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Only his death will be faked, and word will be sent that he died at the claws of a vicious sand dragon!
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But some people who used the product to access the money tied up in their property face a clawback or a reduction of their social welfare payments.
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He lunged at the man and his sword rammed itself between the man's ribs, grated, then a French hand gripped Sharpe's blade, blood showed at his fingers, but the man held on, tugged, and another man clawed at Sharpe's face.
Sharpe's Siege
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Its huge feet and long legs kept up with her easily, its clawed hands were stretched out ready to grab her, scratching against the walls, making a spine shilling noise.
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The train shunted forward and back unbalancing the mouse and forcing him to grip my arm with his sharp claws to avoid falling to the floor.
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Sixty seconds later, he swerved away from the keeper's clawing gloves to stroke home his 21st goal of an astounding debut campaign.
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The dino range has expanded beyond noisy and noisome T Rex and those kangaroo-bouncy raptors to include the mean-clawed, fast-flying pteronadon and big, big spinosaurus.
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He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
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This thumb claw varied in size, shape and orientation among the sauropod groups: it was particularly big in diplodocoids, where it was also laterally compressed and notably deep, and clearly separated from the rest of the metacarpus.
Archive 2006-04-01
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The goshawk is a royal fowl, and is armed more with boldness than with claws, and as much as kind taketh from her in quantity of body, it rewardeth her with boldness of heart.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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They are the width of a lobster claw, but about four times as long.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scorpion is crablike in appearance and has claw-like pinchers.
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Neighbors recognize each other by scent; unfamiliar visitors are greeted with a harsh snarl and a hooking thumb claw.
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His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
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This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten mettall, their steales and clawes armed.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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It means they could escape having the money they are alleged to have claimed through false accounting clawed back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clawback by the bank's board is the largest since the financial crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fingernails, horns, claws, talons and hooves are special growths of the outer skin or epidermis.
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A nail; claw; hoof, (Heb. sheheleth; Ex. 30: 34), a Latin word applied to the operculum, i.e., the claw or nail of the strombus or wing-shell, a univalve common in the Red Sea.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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With white claws of foam the sea grabbled at the shore.
The Fisherman and His Soul
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We clawed our way up a high mountain ridge covered in fine, shifting talus and on the far side got caught in a thunderstorm.
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Indeed, after years of declawing, today's BBC is so P45-paranoid of offending anyone that we should all feel verily grateful for a meandering plot in The Archers about Lynda's llamas.
Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
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Gradually the catawampus gained on her; she could hear the closer thudding of its hugely clawed feet, and the blasting bellow of its breath.
Roc and a Hard Place
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His hand movements alternated between fluttery flocks of birds and rigid Godzilla claws.
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She easily rotates her body, turning so she isn't vertical anymore, but horizontal, facing me and on all fours, her claws dug into the wood and drawing sap.
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Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession.
Booker Rising
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One waved a claw hammer at him and demanded cash.
The Sun
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His shot was clawed away by Friedel.
Times, Sunday Times
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He pressed something with his thumb and the device fizzed loudly, electric blue light dancing between the sharpened points of the claw.
CHAMELEON
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He stole the tenderness in her lips with fierce lust, not even closing the door before he began clawing at his belt.
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Stunned zoo visitors watched as the big cat pounced, hooked the bird with a claw through its cage, then held it with his teeth.
The Sun
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Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
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United desperately need to win at the Riverside Stadium to maintain their faint hopes of clawing their way back into the title race.
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Presently there will come to thee a bird called the roc [FN#44], that will catch thee up in its claws and fly away with thee and set thee down on
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
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His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side.
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In previous tales, he had been portrayed as a clawed, noseless monster.
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From the walls of the room jagged flashes of blue-white lightning clawed out at the creature, outlining it in a momentary nimbus of sparks and power which faded in the blink of an eye.
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The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
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Common and characteristic plants include several acacias: boat-thorned acacia (Acacia cochliacantha), and tree catclaw, or tésota (Acacia occidentalis).
Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
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Blessings upon a fashion which has rescued from the claws of abigails, and the melting-pot of the silversmith, those neglected cimelia, for the benefit of antiquaries and the decoration of side-tables!
Saint Ronan's Well
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They have no hidden poison glands, not claws or fangs.
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No, they will always try to chain him up and tear out his fangs and claws... then stuff him or put his skin on the wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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I kept on yelling, while scratching and clawing at something in my back.
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At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Her hand is like a claw and she has had to give up her job in a kitchen.
The Sun
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Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty.
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The mitre and sanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Dr. Pangloss's devils had both tails and claws, and his flames were upright.
Candide
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When Hell-Cat Maggie screeched her battle cry and rushed biting and clawing into the midst of a mass of opposing gangsters, even the most stout-hearted blanched and fled.
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Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram.
A Circus of Hells
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Folding her clawed fingers into a tent, she nods.
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His clawed hand never strayed from the hilt of a long sword at his left hip.
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The shop also has a wide range of seafood including tiger prawns, mussels, sea bream and breaded crab claws.
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Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA.
Larry Beinhart: Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision
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For the whelp is a piece of flesh little more than a mouse, having neither eyes nor ears, and having claws some-deal bourgeoning, and so this lump she licketh, and shapeth a whelp with licking ....
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
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Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Anna dropped the medical bag and used Nims's pulaski like an ice axe, clawing up the hill.
Firestorm
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In one sense, to be sure, pigeons and ring-doves could not dance but with 'eclat' -- 'a claw? '
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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They have large lips, a long tongue, a pale muzzle and well-developed hook-like claws that enable them to climb trees and dig for termites.
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She was there as her son clawed his way up from the post-coma cognitive level of a 2-year-old.
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We scramble between fishing rods, cameras and delicious crab claws, reluctant to sacrifice any of the three.
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She wasn't eating generic slabs of lumpy meat that had nothing in common with happy moo-cows and snouty piglets; no, she was eating something with eyes, legs, and claws.
The Trip
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The smoker returned in time for the special starter of fresh crab meat with crab claws.
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I wanted more of that sensation, and made my demand known by punching at the air with clawless fists atop short, stubby arms.
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She pounced on the man's back, ripping and clawing away at him.
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His fingernails were growing into claws and his teeth into fangs.
CHARMED LIFE
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It took her a second to realize that she'd clawed the sheet away and had been lying facedown on the coarsely woven mattress cover.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The fiery broth is overflowing with tender calamari, a crab claw, shrimp, chunks of fish and one impeccable scallop.
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That left the last option: to try to climb down the steep gorge somewhere below the bridge, cross the frozen river and claw their way up the even sheerer face on the Vemork side.
Shadow Knights
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The banjo is played in the more rhythmic "clawhammer" style, which has a sound not dissimilar from a chicken clucking.
Phawker
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This morning, it's a dead bird on the small porch, legs up in the air, claws gripping nothing, stomach distended.
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We inched out the door, the wind clawing at my legs as they emerged into the slipstream - and then it happened.
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Harbor seals have short front flippers with claws which are used to move on land.
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In his left claw Zavala clutched the lopper, but it soon became clear to him that his opponent was not going to stay still long enough for Zavala to cut a zipper as intended.
SERPENT
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The misshapen, swollen fingers are welded together and his nails look like claws.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘We feel that it is one of the surgeries that people take very much for granted,’ says Luke, noting that many owners bring in their kittens to be declawed as a matter of routine.
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It would only be a moment before it sharpened its needlelike claws and took hold.
Falling In
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Last time I was teaching them however, I was clawing at the door by about two o'clock hoping that someone would walk past so I could grab them and run away.
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The schooner was called Le Carcajou—the Wolverine—and her figurehead was a carving of the beast, mouth agape and fangs bared, claws ready to strike.
City of Glory
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Since they have very coarse fur and stout claws, badger hygiene tends to be an extremely noisy affair.
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Burn Through Bring Me My Queen City of Refuge The mix works, with Ms. Washburn's voice and plucky "clawhammer"-style banjo holding the center.
This Is Not Your Usual Pop R
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If dewclaws are present on your Shih Tzu, trim the dewclaws as well.
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The cat tried to cling to the edge by its claws.
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Feel us rumple through all that it's got: bed spreads, shower curtain, taste like apple bear claws from the continental breakfast: Philly cream cheese in foot-long foil squeeze.
Float Like An Asterisk, Sting Like A Mote
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The cat shifted about on his lap, clawed at the woolen nubs of his trousers.
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Paleontologists believe the meat-eating theropod dinosaur was light, agile and very fleet of foot,[Sentence dictionary] with three large slashing claws on each hand.
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I can arrive at work, my hair smartly coiffed in place with a giant claw clip, bobby pins keeping any strays in place.
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For instance, there's the double-claw hammer used by woodworkers and carpenters to pull up nails with more ease than a single claw hammer.
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By contrast, he chose to portray the character as ailing: cadaverously thin and pale with flushed cheeks and clawlike fingers.
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But those don't look like cat claw marks.
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Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months.
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In other words, they can grab a piece of food with the little claws on their feet, taste it, then bring it up to their mouth and taste it again.
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Can they claw their way back into their good books?
The Sun
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The relief is subject to a clawback if the property is disposed of within six years of receiving the gift or inheritance, he said.
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It took her a second to realize that she'd clawed the sheet away and had been lying facedown on the coarsely woven mattress cover.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
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Anyone who wishes to make it with Leo must never undermine the leonine dignity, or they will surely suffer the claws of the cat.
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They were needed for a certain time at least, and only after the Moors had done their duty,1 could the wirepuller venture to give them the kicks they had coming to them and take the Republic out of the hands of the old state servants and surrender it into the claws of the revolutionary vultures.
Mein Kampf
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They were a sub-order with sharp claws and a prominent second toe looking like a huge sickle.
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From the resulting corner the same player powered in a header, but Steels keeper Richard Siddall half-blocked it and clawed the ball clear as it spun netwards.
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Our cat likes to sharpen her claws on the legs of the dining table.
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There are two main devices being suggested to moderate bonuses payments - deferral and clawback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four-wheel drives can claw their way along mud tracks, wet grass and the occasional snowscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mechanical diggers moved in with dinosaur-like claws, ripping away chunks of the six-storey building.
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Her tone was flat and deadly, her fingers curled stiffly into something like claws.
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But weekend meetings of European finance ministers in Wroclaw, Poland, underscored deep divisions on the euro-zone crisis.
Euro Falls in Asia Trade
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Upon his mighty paws, which resembled large, furry, human hands, were claws sharp as razors and unbreakable as the most finally crafted swords.
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The Big Ship, Reynard, was the largest in the fleet of appropriated sailing ships that Claw's organization was running.
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He leapt the fence, his toe claws pushing off from the top rail.
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Mladenov also observed a crinoid arm in the claw of the crab Oregonia gracilis.
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Jump back + MK works alright for stuffing DRs, but if you're Claw and getting "spammed" by them you're probably being a tad too passive to begin with
Shoryuken
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She decided to announce them to the world at a press conference in Washington, D.C., in February 1978, along with some other surprising finds: the first fossilized prints of a chalicothere, a peculiar herbivore that sported claws on its hooves; and the possible track of a knuckle-walking ape.
Ancestral Passions
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Besides having horns and claws, I now possess a tail and leathery wings.
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The government are clawing back age allow ances in tax.
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That cat will scratch you with its claws.
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It is also subject to a clawback if sold before the expiration of the incentive period.
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Fool Moon - The mutilated corpse of mobster Johnny Marcone's bodyguard is discovered by the police, only the murder weapon appears to be fangs and claws.
REVIEW: Wizard For Hire by Jim Butcher (SFBC Omnibus Collection)
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The Kings also purchased from Chapin a set of six side chairs with claw-and-ball feet and interlacing splats.
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Our cat likes to sharpen her claws on the legs of the dining table.
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He was also presented with a special ceremonial stick with a real eagle's claw attached.
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For one moment she dropped her mask and the clawing agony was plain to see.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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The Giants pulled ahead early in the first three games against shaky Dodger starters, only to let the Dodgers claw their way back into the game.
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Some did manage to claw their way up iron ladders to the safety of the upper deck.
