How To Use Clawed In A Sentence
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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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Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
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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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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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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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The politician clawed his rival
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Frozen in space, they clawed at the air.
Man of Honour
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The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
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Their favorite cat clawed a hole in my stocking.
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Benson clawed his way back into the lead.
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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 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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His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
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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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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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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 shot was clawed away by Friedel.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty.
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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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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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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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‘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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The cat shifted about on his lap, clawed at the woolen nubs of his trousers.
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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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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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And there may even be the occasional malus - so that promised bonuses can be clawed back.
Times, Sunday Times
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His shot was clawed away by Friedel.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were first isolated from the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis.
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The horrors of the opening five minutes had gone and they deservedly clawed a goal back on the stroke of half-time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another polar bear clawed a hole in their tent while they slept but was more easily scared away.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the sort of smile used by an animal when it realizes its prey is in its clawed grasp.
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By dint of its popularity and enduring performance legs, Grease has clawed an undebatable home for itself in the musical theatre canon.
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They slowly clawed their way up the cliff.
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A diver admires a gully wall covered in plumose anemones, the sought-after wolf-fish a long-clawed squat lobster, a male lumpsucker on egg-guarding duty, and colorful soft corals.
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Searching, Alex frantically clawed at the strong arm that possessed her, looking for an escape amidst chaos.
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These women she said, her voice now almost a whisper, "clawed" their way to the top and didn't necessarily want to encourage others to join them.
Julie Menin: Why It Needs to be A Woman
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Because direct taxes will not rise, any shortfall will be clawed back through cutbacks.
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His ears buzzed with anticipation of the fear that that clawed at the surface of his mind, daring to break loose and cause pandemonium upon all common sense and knowledge.
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The dark pads unfolded into thick, clawed fingers; instead of a dewclaw, the thing had a thumb.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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She clawed her way to the top of her profession.
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There are deadly bar brawls, living gods made of molten bronze, silver-tongued demons, razor-clawed gargoyles, talking green-eyed spiders and page after page of broken bones and spilled blood.
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Of course, declawed cats should be indoor-only pets and you should be very careful mixing them with cats that still have their claws.
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There was the creamy bowl of a skull, rags bundling nobbled sticks together, shrouding the clawed fingers of a ribcage in a grey shirt and sweater.
Acceptance
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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Twice the iron hand clawed him.
Peter Pan
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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My vet said I only have two options - to get rid of Fred or have him declawed - neither of which I want to do!
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Coming from an orthodox Jewish family that occasionally clawed its way into the lower middle-class for up to two years at a time, I was acutely aware of the fact that the kind of jobs available to people like me embraced nothing that anybody ever dreamed of being: general clerk, payroll clerk, file clerk, shlepper.
Michael Wex: How Do You Make a Writer Kvetch?
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After all, last year they clawed back a huge deficit to overhaul Wenger's men.
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Twice the iron hand clawed him.
Peter Pan
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Four clawed digits are found on each forefoot.
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Twice the iron hand clawed him.
Peter Pan
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Sara leapt at Rin, clawing at her with inch-long nails grimed with dirt as though she had clawed her way up from the grave.
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Sharp metal splinters from old farm contraptions clawed at their clothes and crinolines stacked like fish traps.
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Above the guardrail is a throne, winged and gothic looking with its clawed feet and wide, bat-wing like back with spindly, spiderlike legs framing the small figure sitting inside it.
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Their favorite cat clawed a hole in my stocking.
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Twice the iron hand clawed him.
Peter Pan
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sharp-clawed
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Some owners request otherwise unnecessary surgical procedures in an effort to make their animals more suitable as pets, although even declawed and defanged animals are still highly dangerous.
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For three days, two unevenly matched teams have brawled, they have hurled almost everything at each other, and any time one has deigned to take the advantage, the other has clawed it back.
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She had clawed Stephen across the face.
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The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation.
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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They had faces like lions and horns like bulls, barrel bodies and bowlegs, clawed hands and feet.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Their favorite cat clawed a hole in my stocking.
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McCain clawed his way back, clinching the nomination in early March.
McCain: 'Move beyond' disappointment
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In general, these spruce appeared clawed, debarked, broken, ripped out of the ground, buried under large piles of peat, or tilted at ground level, damage that likely occurred during excavation at the dens by polar bears.
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We were merely two bodies consumed by irrationality as we grabbed and clawed and heaved and sweated our way towards a steamy satisfaction.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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With his free hand, Sam desperately clawed at the necromancer's bandolier, trying to get one of the bells.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Another polar bear clawed a hole in their tent while they slept but was more easily scared away.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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We got a government grant for setting up our business, but they clawed it all back again in taxes.
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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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We clobbered clawed beasts with a man-sized war-hammer and flung them against polished, marble walls.
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The sounds buzzed slightly and worked around in her head, sleep clawed at her eyes painfully as Samantha sat up and rubbed the last remnants of a dream from them.
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In effect, landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones.
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His shot was clawed away by Friedel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any of various extinct ungulate mammals of the Eocene to Pleistocene epochs, having distinctive three-clawed, three-toed feet.
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We got a government grant for setting up our business, but they clawed it all back again in taxes.
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Seventh-place David Millar of Britain clawed his way back to the pack despite puncturing a tire near the end.
Cavendish wins Tour stage; Kirchen keeps lead
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Beneath a prowlike keelbone were lean yellow-skinned arms whose hands, evolved from talons, each bore three sharp-clawed fingers flanked by two thumbs, and a dewclaw on the inner wrist.
The Day Of Their Return
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She clawed the doorknob
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The third dragonet, no coward, pounced on Smash with all four clawed feet extended.
Falcon Street
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They's a man up the Little Peco that's had a ruction with a panther, an 'the way he's clawed is something scand'lous.
THE END OF THE STORY
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I viciously clawed at his clothing, almost ripping his favorite shirt.
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In the next seven years, Assad clawed his way up the ladder until he emerged as sole leader in 1970.
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Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance.
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The bird clawed weakly at the arrow's shaft and its body gave small flutters, splattering blood.
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Ba'weary but she gart somebody lowp for it that day; they couldnae say ae thing but she could say twa to it; till, at the hinder end, the guidwives up and claught haud of her, and clawed the coats aff her back, and pu'd her doun the clachan to the water o 'Dule, to see if she were
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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One lizard (rather too lazy - his clawed toes evidently sent to sleep by the sunbathed stone) fell to the ground.
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Here formal and appointed tasks necessarily kept his eccentric fancies in tolerable check, though it is recorded that no less than five times he had been deposed from his desk for having shocked the conoscenti, and thrown the whole band into confusion, by impromptu variations of so frantic and startling a nature that one might well have imagined that the harpies or witches who inspired his compositions had clawed hold of his instrument.
Zanoni
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They's a man up the Little Peco that's had a ruction with a panther, an 'the way he's clawed is something scand'lous.
THE END OF THE STORY
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She was grabbed again from behind and this time a big, scaly, clawed hand was clapped over her mouth.
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But again, the best is in bronze: a kitchen scale with a bronze head for a weight, a fat pumpkin-shaped vessel standing on clawed feet, a sieve whose tiny holes form an intricate floral pattern and a remarkable cylindrical brazier with a classical double doorway for putting in coal, a cover with dolphin handles and a triton statuette on top.
The Gracious Art of Living
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Although bonus money is accrued during the course of the year, it can be clawed back again by the bank if the fourth quarter proves especially tough.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fighting against well dug in troops and defences that had been prepared years in advance they clawed their way over the dunes and onto the coastlines and into the hedgerows.
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But the miffed monkeys clawed at him until zoo staff hauled him out.
The Sun
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He reached his muscled arm across the water and stretched out his long-clawed fingers.
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If your cat has not been declawed, you'll need to remove the hooks on the ends of the claws.
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Wildlife officials are setting traps for the declawed leopard, but so far no luck.
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He was seriously injured when one of the lions clawed his back.
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In addition to conserving globally important populations of freshwater dolphins, the new wildlife sanctuaries in the Sundarbans are expected to provide protection for other threatened aquatic wildlife including the river terrapin, masked finfoot, and small-clawed otter.
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The wolf clawed at the tree and howled the whole night.
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The African dwarf clawed frog is native to rain forests of central and western Africa and is a common pet in household aquariums.
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Nine five-clawed dragons are couched in gold thread.
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The same sensation clawed at his cheek and he gasped, the pain searing, yet unreal.
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A hand snatched her wrist in mid-swing, clawed fingers tightening as she tried to struggle free.
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I clawed back a little of the time on the frozen ascent and descent over the Alpine pass to Gstaad.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frozen in space, they clawed at the air.
Man of Honour
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Tas was just about to call Tanis's attention to this when Tika came out of the kitchen and slammed food down in front of the draconians, skillfully avoiding their clawed hands.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
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The northwestern limit of the ecoregion is the Sanaga River, a faunal boundary for such species as the golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus), white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), and elegant needle-clawed galago (Euoticus elegantus).
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
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But when the error recently came to light the revenue simply clawed back the full amounts paid in error.
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Another polar bear clawed a hole in their tent while they slept but was more easily scared away.
Times, Sunday Times
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I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement that the poll tax compensation of ￡700 million will not be clawed back.
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The African clawed frog is used for pregnancy tests.
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Four clawed digits are found on each forefoot (the pollex or ‘thumb’ is small and bears a nail); the hind foot in most has five clawed digits (but sometimes the hallux or first toe has a nail).
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The chelicerae (first appendages) may be clawed mouthparts or may be modified for piercing, as in ticks.
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Like their cousins the cacomistles and ringtailed cats, Kinkajous can turn their hind feet backwards, so that the clawed toes can be used when descending head-first.
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Rescue workers clawed at the wreckage of eight buildings and a mosque, which were destroyed in the attacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their legs are quite strong, with four sharp-clawed toes and webbed feet.
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She scratched and clawed at him but he forced her into a chair and tied her hands behind her back.
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Kings quickly rose and fell, sometimes several in a single year, until at last Amyntas III, grandfather of Alexander the Great, clawed his way to the top and seized the throne in 393.
Alexander the Great
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D&D players in particular tend to be very cavalier about how their characters are getting clawed and bitten, and a bit of infection risk -- either real-world hazards or fantasy ones like infectious lycanthropy -- would make the gaming worlds that much more complex and interesting.
The mysteries of rabies Boing Boing
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terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb
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I felt my fists clenching, my face contorting, feeling, not hearing the burning, strangled sob that clawed its way from my throat.
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Gabby Deeds Kendra Lee Oberhauser, a fast talking, narcissistic, and extremely manipulative hedge fund manager at Icarus Wealth Management Group who has clawed her way up the corporate ladder by becoming a back-stabbing bitch.
George Heymont: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
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In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia.
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Will they look more like the deforested, erosion-clawed exposed steppes of Afghanistan?
Bird Cloud
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The first digit, or dew claw, is rudimentary but clawed and does not contact the ground.
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A coin silted into the gravel under the bank there, where the river made a shallow cove, and clawed up in the fist of a scrambling urchin who happened to sprawl on his face there in evading pursuit.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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Also, I finally had to get the cat declawed, and that upset the hell out of me for some reason.
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By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds.
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They were freed after 30 rescuers had clawed away rubble with bare hands in temperatures of 100F.
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The northwestern limit of the ecoregion is the Sanaga River, a faunal boundary for such species as the golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus), white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), and elegant needle-clawed galago (Euoticus elegantus).
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
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The throwers at the airport will destroy the virgin surface of your case on its maiden voyage with special clawed scratching tools they reserve solely for this purpose - or at least, that's how it feels when you get it back.
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Crowther clawed his way back and clinched the fifth.
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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Popular names are Mongolian gerbil and clawed jird.
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I think I see something that looks like a clawed appendage with a wing trying to flap free.
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He had already been declawed and neutered by a past owner as well.
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I clawed my way back upslope again, battling the vines nearly every step of the way.
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He came from a very humble background but clawed his way to success.
The Sun
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African clawed frog (Xenopus Laevis) sport unique melanophore (pigment cells) that slowly move across the skin of the animal.
Medgadget
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It clawed, pecked and fluttered its short, stubby wings as it thrashed about to get free.
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Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet.
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Rob returned to his quarters an hour later to find Sollain standing outside, clutching an electronic notepad in his clawed hand.
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Dale and University of Warwick developmental biologist Elizabeth Jones, along with colleagues, discovered the eye-switch while investigating how "ectoenzyme" molecules located on the external surface of cells contributed to the development of locomotion in the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).
Scientists Envision Growing Human Eyeballs | Impact Lab
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Yeah, after $20K of damage to furniture and getting close to divorce (and spending $400/mt on counseling), HER cats finally got declawed (mine was a total declaw from 10 weeks old).
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia
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In the center of the room, shifting around upon a shining pink bed amongst a mess of hair and sheet, a girl clawed at the ringing sound of her alarm.
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Willetts has calculated that around a third of this additional weekly income will be clawed back in many cases.
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In one vid, the kitties clawed a carpet in his home.
The Sun
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They have long snouts, small eyes, large, clawed feet and long nearly naked tails.
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Viz inspected each wing in turn, men his enormous, formidably clawed feet, lastly the broad, spatulate tail.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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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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My major interest is the chalicotheres, a group of extinct clawed herbivorous perissodactyls.
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The Hong Kong-based animal welfare group Animals Asia Foundation released a report in August that said bears in Chinese zoos were regularly whipped and beaten with sticks, while elephants were prodded with metal hooks, and tigers and lions were defanged and declawed, causing them chronic pain.
China Zoo Cruelty, Abuse Crackdown: Facilities Face Closure For Animal Performances, Wildlife Product Sales And Inadequate Food & Shelter
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Unfortunately most people seem to think that when a cat gets declawed it is only their claws that are removed.
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His shot was clawed away by Friedel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other mammals include binturong Arctictis binturong, anteater Manis javanicus, oriental small-clawed otter Amblonyx cinerea, palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, oriental civet Viverra tangalunga and crab eating macaque Maccaca fasicularis.
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Philippines
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The tigers at ALS are declawed on their front paws and so could not have gained a ‘toe-hold’ on a fully closed window through the use of a claw.
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British, French, Australians, New Zealanders had clawed a toehold on the Gallipoli peninsula.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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He yelled, while he stroked his pointy chin with his clawed right hand.
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Rescue workers and survivors clawed away at the rubble, passing chunks of concrete and bricks along a line.
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His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
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Robinson was moving right across his goalline but stretched back and clawed the ball away.
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They clawed their way to the top of the mountain
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My lips parted as my legs, my hands clutched and clawed at his back, I gasped, I murmured endearments in my breathiest alto.
Kuniklos Diary Entry
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She had four legs with large clawed paws beneath her white-furred feline shape.
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The first digit, or dew claw, is rudimentary but clawed and does not contact the ground.
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I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow.
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She checked the straps on her leg armor, making sure they were tight, remembering how the enemy's strong fingers had clawed at her legs, trying to unhorse her.
Men Don't Leave Me
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He slowly clawed at the rope, eventually getting him out.
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The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation.
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Mary clawed at her husband's sleeve, trying to stop him.
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And there may even be the occasional malus - so that promised bonuses can be clawed back.
Times, Sunday Times
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he clawed insatiably at the traditional precepts
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I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement that the poll tax compensation of ￡700 million will not be clawed back.
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There was a loud screech on the door as its large talons clawed at the steel.
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It has since clawed back market share, but only at the cost of sacrificing a good chunk of profit margin.
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Although bonus money is accrued during the course of the year, it can be clawed back again by the bank if the fourth quarter proves especially tough.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of my work has emphasized chalicotheres, an unusual group of clawed perissodactyls.
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Someone should have told Courtney Love to have her cat declawed… he ruined her dress!
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Getting to this point has involved emotional tumult and these three points had to be clawed and scratched for.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was badly clawed by his little brother.
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The cat clawed the wall.
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Her fingernails clawed at the rock, straining to keep hold against the vehement wind.
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The muddy terrain seaward of the wreck is fertile ground for scallops, dragonets and some of the biggest long-clawed squat lobsters I have seen.
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Sources Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood that Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine "clawed" a whopping $35 million debut Friday in part to heavy attendance at evening shows and the studio's widest release ever into 4,099 theaters.
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Your amazon. com score therefore deals with either end of the spectrum, however if a customer is dissatisfied, and a resolution can be worked out between you and the customer, the negative rating can be clawed back, or further feedback can be left.
Msagara: Wherein Michelle is irritated
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A probable-cause statement filed with the criminal charges said that after being apprehended, Gomez fought with the officers and "clawed" at one of them.
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The hands are clawed, deformed, seemingly clutching madly or reaching out in desperation.
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They have long snouts, small eyes, large, clawed feet and long nearly naked tails.
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Another polar bear clawed a hole in their tent while they slept but was more easily scared away.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this had just the contrary effect; for the whilom Hostess of the Stag o 'Tyne, enraged at the Indignity offered to her, did so bemaul and bewray M.dam M.cphilader with her tongue, shaking her fist at her meanwhile, that the Gaoleress in a fury clawed at least two handfuls of M. Drum's hair from her head, not without getting some smart clapperclawing in the face; whereupon she cries out "M.rther" and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
