How To Use Clench In A Sentence

The question was tinged with a touch of sarcasm that made her embarrassed flush renew its bright shade and caused her to clench her fists.
A guttural sound broke from his chest when he felt her sheathe tugging him deeper, its slick clench undeniable. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips.
His clenched fist was the only outward sign of his anger.
I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.

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My fists clenched and unclenched as I tried to think of some comeback to scream at her but nothing came to mind.
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
Grinding of the teeth and clenching of the jaws during sleep, otherwise known as bruxism, is a common condition for adults who want to release tension. Article Ace
I clenched my fingers on the steering wheel, the speedometer swung towards 85 mph as I raced home.
These considerations had clenched the bookbinder's resolution, and this was now the third day of Jean's ushership. The Aspirations of Jean Servien
This path consists of 7 small metal foot-bridges, approximately 320 m of chains built into the rocky walls, 140 clenches and about 70 m of wooden gangboards.
Shumba gritted out through clenched teeth, his features dark and angry.
The driver, taken by ambulance, arrived in the emergency room obtunded, diaphoretic, with his mouth clenched, and with a positive cough reflex.
He slammed his clenched fist into the desk, and began to cry.
I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.
Her hands clenched rhythmically in his hair as she cried out in the wordless language of ecstasy. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
He zigged and zagged and she went with him, arm clenched tightly to his.
Her eyes were clenched firmly shut as her legs gave way and she slid down the airlock door onto the cold floor.
Fouled hard by Walter McCarty and Rodney Rogers, Martin clenched his fists but calmly walked to the foul line to shoot his free throws. USATODAY.com - Nets' Martin cleans up game
He looks a tad constipated to me, that or he has just emitted built-up gas and is clenching his carpentered cuspids in embarrassment.
His face twisted into furry and his hands clenched into tight fists.
Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet. Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
The jaw is able to clench and chew because of the masseter muscle.
I nonchalantly leave Adrian in the living room and enter the kitchen, although my stomach is clenching with anxiety and apprehension.
He sat there in the saddle for a moment, immobile, clenching the reins tightly.
She stood in a defensive stance, not backing down from his stare, fists clenched at her sides.
Those words had their desired effect, and her throat instantly clenched up dryly.
His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
I've found her with clenched fists, kicking walls and lampposts. The Sun
The cigarette she was smoking is now crushed in her clenched fist.
His hands continued to clench and unclench.
That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
Within months the neurological disorder focal dystonia took full hold, leaving his hand permanently clenched and unusable.
Burnell put a clenched fist under his nose. Somewhere East of Life
I was bent over, gritting my teeth and clenching onto the table.
‘Oh, you impudent child,’ Mrs. Hastings muttered through clenched teeth.
Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
Mahoney clenched his fist in exasperation.
If you are holding a pen, are you gripping it for dear life with your fingers clenched around it so that the knuckles show? Healthy By Nature
With a knife clenched in/between his teeth, he climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
He began clenching and unclenching his fists again.
At the playground she shadows his progress, car keys clenched in her hand in case they have to dash to A&E. Times, Sunday Times
She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a sluice of cold water down her spine.
The muscles along her stomach clenched, and her insides contracted with a searing pain.
Too angry for tears, she drew away from him into a pool of icy water at the unwiped end of the seat, her hands clenched on her knees. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
Clenching his hands tightly in a ball, Erik tried with all his might to control his trembling, but failed, ‘He said that if I did not draw my weapon he would cut me down where I stood.’
She looked at the familiar scrawl on the front of the envelope -- just the word "Shauna" -- and felt her stomach clench. Tell No One
Heathcliff is routinely described during the course of the narrative as grinding, clenching, and gnashing his teeth.
There was a feeling in the young man's stomach, of hatred and sickness, and a horrible clench.
He clenched his jaw and went from one day to the next. Christianity Today
The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
I clenched my fists helplessly and struggled back to a sitting position, thinking unprintable thoughts.
She clenched her teeth and grimaced as if pronouncing the word orphan filled her mouth with castor oil. Brooke
Cigar-clenching pulp writer Carradine is the obvious directorial alter-ego, but this amounts to little added depth, as hambone Fuller's public persona has always retained a comic-strip element.
If I don't mind skipping the boniest bits and it's clear from the abundant length of the otherwise eeny teeny patches on my ankle bones that I don't, I feel safe engaging in shaving even while totally blinded from clenching my eyes shut against a shampoo sting invasion. Ten Fears, Mostly Unfounded
Red liquid flowed in tiny streams from his clenched fist, but he didn't seem to notice.
The roars from around the green were acknowledged with a clenched right fist. Times, Sunday Times
If you want a more ‘advanced’ tasting, clench your teeth and suck in some air to help aerate the wine.
The Cimmerian extended his broad arms to hold the bursar outside the window, then simply opened his clenched fingers. Archive 2010-02-01
His jaw was tightly clenched.
Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.
Perhaps she falls (never in a way to injure herself) to the floor and apparently loses consciousness, closes her eyes, rolls her head from side to side, moans, clenches her fists, lifts her body from the floor so that it rests on head and heels (opisthotonic hysteria), shrieks now and then and altogether presents a terrifying spectacle. The Foundations of Personality
I clenched my hand into a fist. Times, Sunday Times
st that had been clenched on my knife haft suddenly loosened, and a relaxed readiness spread through me. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The muscles on either side of her jaw were nearly the size of walnuts from the bruxing and clenching she did even while awake, and she carried her lower jaw slightly forward, which made the tendons of her neck stand out even more. LIGHT FINGERS
I clenched my fists tightly and hurled myself at the boy who had pushed me down.
She sat with hands clenched together in her lap.
His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand. Moby Dick
Malcolm clenched his fist angrily.
He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
My heart clenched; neither myself or Aidan could be seen or our cover would be completely blown.
Adian clenched his eyes closed a moment, and she saw his shoulder muscles bunch, felt the pull of her arm, and the death grip they held on each other.
Happiness seems meteor, who can accompany to me clench it.
Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
Sitting upright, his knuckles paled as he clenched the bedcover firmly.
Patsy had to clench her jaw to suppress her anger.
The court was then told how, on May 30, Howarth caused another £100 of damage to Mr Hopkin's car after pummelling the bonnet with clenched fists.
Her father remained standing, but his fists and his jaw clenched and unclenched as he continued to stare at Mary.
She was breathing hard, and her fists were clenched as if she were ready to deck the first person that got in her way.
Tobias's nostrils were flared, and he had his arms held stiffly against his sides, with his hands clenched into fists.
Sarah asked bravely, her hands still firmly clenching Migoto's waist.
When Galactica hits Dolly Parton's high notes, her squinting eyes reflect the challenge, and the scatted breakdown of "Bye Bye Blackbird" by Rachelle Ferrell has the diva in a bent posture, shaking her clenched fists. Galactica performance perfectly in sync in Fringe Festival's 'Irrelevant Acts'
Those who remain monolingual are limited to English speaking markets, where competition is stiffer than Andy McNab’s clenched fist. Web Translations » Blog Archive » Online Purchases Increase Across Europe
The babu, flat on the ground, was turning his head to polish his spectacles; Bella Blair had her face hidden, but I noticed her fists were clenched. Fiancée
Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams.
My teeth clenched together and I couldn't help but frown.
She became mindless and stupid and desperate and the thought of having that big, hard body of his pumping in and out of hers made her belly and thighs clench and her sex tingle and slicken. The Specialist
The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
She clenched her fists in front of her chest but I was the one with a black belt in karate.
The Strangford Apollo, the Apollo of Thera, and the Apollo of Tenea, are even represented in the canonical, or "hieratic" attitude, with clenched hands, and arms straightened to the sides, which stamps all Egyptian figure-sculpture in stone. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Her eyes were clenched shut, a rictus of pain marring her features. Arcane Circle
Clencher-built vessels are much stronger, in proportion to their weight, than carvel-built ships.
He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists.
Sara fell into step beside him, finally realizing that she clenched and unclenched her still unworn gloves in her hand.
He clenched his teeth and set an unwinking snake stare on the guest.
Christopher clenched his jaw and fisted his hands.
Jack the heroic doctor is tending to the terminally injured Marshal, who through clenched teeth is trying to tell him something about Kate.
Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
He clenched his fist, then, crushing the leaf. The Broken God
With your fist behind your head, and your ideas about your fist in your mind, slowly unclench your fist until your fingers are outstretched.
Kay's eyes flew open and she leaped at Jon, fists clenched, teeth gnashing and Aya and I could barely hold her back.
She clenched her hands tightly, pursing her lips.
I only stood there, clenching and unclenching my fists.
Her hands clenched an imaginary steering wheel in excitement and she ran to recreate the sense of wind streaming through her hair. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides.
She saw his jaw clench and unclench, but aside from the tiny movement in his face, he completely hid his emotions.
There was a pause, the automatic doors unclenched.
The blond little girl clenched her teeth, cantered her mare to the jump, but the mare put an extra stride in, not giving herself space to jump the fence.
Her wrists still burned from the rope chafing her flesh and she sucked a breath in through her clenched teeth as her forehead touched their raw skin.
He looked back down at the ground and she clenched her fists tightly.
Robert held her gaze, fists clenching and unclenching as his breathing whistled in her ears.
Altair situated himself in the saddle and let out a sigh through clenched teeth, taking the reins tightly.
But this one made his jaw clench tight and his teeth rattle a bit.
Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
A mass of muscle would pop up: deltoids would ripple, trapezoids bunch and gloots clench.
His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand. Moby Dick
His voice was throaty and deep when he made that statement, and I felt my stomach clench.
For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
I uncurled my clenched fingers and placed them on top of his leather-gloved hand.
Her fingers clenched into fists at her sides as the tears streamed down her face.
Gripping her shoulders, Joyce clenched together her teeth and looked into Sibyl's eyes.
My entire body orgasmed, my legs and muscles tensing and clenching with pleasure, my breath exploding in a shudder. My Fair Succubi
His fists clenched tighter than they ever had, his arms clung close to his stomach in agony.
Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously.
Warm air, slightly moist, caressed her jaw line, swept back the tension from its clenched fist.
She withdrew her glaive, clenching it tightly.
The roars from around the green were acknowledged with a clenched right fist. Times, Sunday Times
He clenched his jaw as the pain barrier seemed to break with every passing second.
Sapphire's eyes looked towards the bodies and her heart clenched painfully once more.
Attack Signals: When somebody is about to attack, they give visual signal such as clenching of fists ready to strike and lowering and spreading of the body for stability. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Christopher clenched his jaw and reached out, shutting his eyes tight as he twisted the handle and jerked the door open.
They teach me to let go, to unclench, to find peace. Shasta Nelson, M.Div.: Blessing of the Open Hands
unclench" its fist, amid reports that the new administration is considering further gestures. PrairiePundit
Juen heard a stifled breath and she turned around, Kumma's face had paled immensely and his fist was clenched in the soft material of the pillow.
Her face was inscrutable, but her fingers clenched and unclenched beneath the frilled gingham of her pinafore. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands.
If your bite is misaligned, you will clench or grind as a reflex response, which can cause the deep facial muscle that controls the jaw to go into spasm.
They all felt a lump in their throats, a clench in their hearts, and an ache in their chests.
His hands clenched tightly, yet a soft cynical laugh escaped from his lips.
On another occasion a gnarled and fervent Radical of the bootmaking persuasion hobbled to the door of his establishment, and waving clenched and uplifted fists, called down upon us and our retreating equipage all the curses at the command of a rather extensive vocabulary until we were out of earshot. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
I could see that his teeth were clenched with suppressed emotion; tears or anger I couldn't tell.
She had grabbed a third apple and had gotten ready to throw it, but remembering herself just in time she clenched her fist.
Nasidius by a prester which caused his form to swell to an unrecognisable size, and so on through the list of serpents, each episode closing with a brilliant epigram which clenches the effect. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
Her fists clench, and he could have sworn that her eyes were blazing with fire, the lambent glow bathing him in an evil red light.
Her stomach clenched suddenly, heaving, and she had her answer.
The attic steps creaked loudly every time Rayne stepped on one, and she frowned slightly as she clenched the banister tightly.
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Vowels seem to swell deep in Caleb's throat, but he squeezes them through clenched teeth, as if bench-pressing cinder blocks in the vocal booth. Album review: Kings of Leon, "Come Around Sundown"
When his chest was pierced, he clenched his fist. The Sun
Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.
The hand can be either a clenched fist or an open palm, depending upon how the defender wishes to counter attack.
The mezzo-soprano, Hilary Summers, has a dark, smoky voice - at times she almost sounds like a countertenor - and she sings René Char's surreal text with both passion and clenched-jaw control.
His jaw was clenched shut.
When the call was made and I had to go, I stood straight in front of the closed door, clenching the handkerchief firmly.
His jaw was clenched tight.
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Check out those clenched fists or hunched shoulders. The Sun
I notice Addam-say's face becomes very red when he hears this, and he starts to clench and unclench his fists again.
his clenched (or clinched) teeth
It is an image for all time: tiny figure beneath a sky-scraping mast, Tower Bridge open to salute her, left arm hooked around the forestay with the greatest nonchalance, and right arm raised, fist clenched.
He unclenched his fist slowly, and stared at the paper in his hand.
An overwhelming desire for life made the hands clench the lifeline as if rigor mortis had already set in. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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My teeth are clenched even thinking about kids treating Franklin the way I watched them treat the kids in my school.
Quite frankly I think that it is countries like the USA that need to unclench their fists.
I fancy I had been making queer faces enough, and perhaps talking to myself, When I saw myself used in this manner, I held out my clenched fists straight before me, stooped my head, and, like a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down all before me. Redgauntlet
Finally his hand rose above from the couch clenching a cell phone tightly as he dialed Scarlet right away.
One of the scenes has a black-haired woman on a flowered blanket, her pink floral housecoat thrown open, her eyebrows raised and teeth clenched as she leans back on one elbow.
And so, my skirt very swishy and my hands very clenched for some reason, I run, run like I am flying, back to the store of instruments.
He hissed and clenched his fists so tightly I saw a trail of blood slide down his palms.
I know, but we lived like that, somewhere between the clenched purity of the ideal and the capacious impurities of the everyday. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
His body is clenching from the pain and his mouth is drooling.
His arousal was a potent force beneath the black silk barely sheathing its powerful rigidity, and she felt her insides clench in anticipation of his possession. Purchased By The Billionaire
Maxwell resumed his furious pacing, clenching the phone tightly, ‘Is he all right?’
My body clenched in anticipation of the bullets that would rip through it.
He clenched his fists so tightly that he broke the skin on his palms.
Standing, I saw her muscles clench and Natalia inhaled sharply.
His chin rests on his clenched left fist, while his right arm is leaning on a crutch - a support for his missing right leg. Times, Sunday Times
Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket, fists clenched inside the pockets, eyes little worry beads of suspicion.
The chief personage in it was a lady reclining at full length on a long couch, and being dragged along, looking the picture of misery, emaciated to the last degree, her head drawn back almost in a state of opisthotonos, her hands and arms clenched and contracted, her eyes fixed and staring at the sky. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
He wasn't at all surprised to see that her hands had been clenched into fists.
She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling.
His face changed color to a kind of grayish purple, and his hands clenched slowly at his sides. Pagan Passions
For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
These images of voluptuousness made him clench his fists, and a shiver run along his spine.
Those thoughts continued, fear shot through Shanza so strongly that his stomach clenched in a knot and he went white with fright.
He worked frantically, clenching his respirator in his teeth, desperately trying to take shallow breaths. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Every bump my horse pranced over made my stomach clench dangerously.
He said furiously through teeth that were clenched tightly together.
Burnell put a clenched fist under his nose. Somewhere East of Life
My face formed into a look of perplexity, and the fibers of my body clenched.
Adam withdrew his hand and stepped back and clenched his fist and as Joe sprung at him he threw a punch that sent Joe staggering backwards and falling back into the dirt.
He clenched his fists tightly and shook his head slowly from side to side.
But Scott clenches my hand tightly in his, as if not to lose me, and I can't.
Each nail was driven through the two planks, the rove was placed over the end of the nail, and the point was knocked down over the rove to ‘clench’ the two planks together.
Not that anyone except me cares, but the sight of my little girl kitty, Abby, curled up and sleeping on the back of the couch, makes my whole body unclench and relax.
The main picture shows them sitting bolt upright with their hands clenched together in their laps.
But her hands were definitely feeling another pair of hands, clenching her ankles so tightly they cut off the circulation.
Riley clenched his teeth together, glaring hatefully at the girl.

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