How To Use Clenched In A Sentence
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Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
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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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His clenched fist was the only outward sign of his anger.
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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.
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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
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I clenched my fingers on the steering wheel, the speedometer swung towards 85 mph as I raced home.
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These considerations had clenched the bookbinder's resolution, and this was now the third day of Jean's ushership.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
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Shumba gritted out through clenched teeth, his features dark and angry.
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The driver, taken by ambulance, arrived in the emergency room obtunded, diaphoretic, with his mouth clenched, and with a positive cough reflex.
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He slammed his clenched fist into the desk, and began to cry.
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I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.
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Her hands clenched rhythmically in his hair as she cried out in the wordless language of ecstasy.
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
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He zigged and zagged and she went with him, arm clenched tightly to his.
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Her eyes were clenched firmly shut as her legs gave way and she slid down the airlock door onto the cold floor.
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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
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His face twisted into furry and his hands clenched into tight fists.
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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
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She stood in a defensive stance, not backing down from his stare, fists clenched at her sides.
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Those words had their desired effect, and her throat instantly clenched up dryly.
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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
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I've found her with clenched fists, kicking walls and lampposts.
The Sun
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The cigarette she was smoking is now crushed in her clenched fist.
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Within months the neurological disorder focal dystonia took full hold, leaving his hand permanently clenched and unusable.
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Burnell put a clenched fist under his nose.
Somewhere East of Life
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‘Oh, you impudent child,’ Mrs. Hastings muttered through clenched teeth.
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Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
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Mahoney clenched his fist in exasperation.
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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
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With a knife clenched in/between his teeth, he climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
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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
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The muscles along her stomach clenched, and her insides contracted with a searing pain.
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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
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He clenched his jaw and went from one day to the next.
Christianity Today
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The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
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I clenched my fists helplessly and struggled back to a sitting position, thinking unprintable thoughts.
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She clenched her teeth and grimaced as if pronouncing the word orphan filled her mouth with castor oil.
Brooke
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Red liquid flowed in tiny streams from his clenched fist, but he didn't seem to notice.
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The roars from around the green were acknowledged with a clenched right fist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cimmerian extended his broad arms to hold the bursar outside the window, then simply opened his clenched fingers.
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His jaw was tightly clenched.
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Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.
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I clenched my hand into a fist.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I clenched my fists tightly and hurled myself at the boy who had pushed me down.
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She sat with hands clenched together in her lap.
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His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand.
Moby Dick
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Malcolm clenched his fist angrily.
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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
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My heart clenched; neither myself or Aidan could be seen or our cover would be completely blown.
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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.
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Sitting upright, his knuckles paled as he clenched the bedcover firmly.
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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.
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Her father remained standing, but his fists and his jaw clenched and unclenched as he continued to stare at Mary.
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She was breathing hard, and her fists were clenched as if she were ready to deck the first person that got in her way.
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Tobias's nostrils were flared, and he had his arms held stiffly against his sides, with his hands clenched into fists.
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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'
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Those who remain monolingual are limited to English speaking markets, where competition is stiffer than Andy McNab’s clenched fist.
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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
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Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams.
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My teeth clenched together and I couldn't help but frown.
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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.
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She clenched her fists in front of her chest but I was the one with a black belt in karate.
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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
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Her eyes were clenched shut, a rictus of pain marring her features.
Arcane Circle
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He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists.
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Sara fell into step beside him, finally realizing that she clenched and unclenched her still unworn gloves in her hand.
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He clenched his teeth and set an unwinking snake stare on the guest.
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Christopher clenched his jaw and fisted his hands.
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Jack the heroic doctor is tending to the terminally injured Marshal, who through clenched teeth is trying to tell him something about Kate.
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Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
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He clenched his fist, then, crushing the leaf.
The Broken God
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Kay's eyes flew open and she leaped at Jon, fists clenched, teeth gnashing and Aya and I could barely hold her back.
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She clenched her hands tightly, pursing her lips.
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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
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His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides.
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There was a pause, the automatic doors unclenched.
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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.
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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.
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He looked back down at the ground and she clenched her fists tightly.
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Altair situated himself in the saddle and let out a sigh through clenched teeth, taking the reins tightly.
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His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand.
Moby Dick
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For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I uncurled my clenched fingers and placed them on top of his leather-gloved hand.
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Her fingers clenched into fists at her sides as the tears streamed down her face.
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Gripping her shoulders, Joyce clenched together her teeth and looked into Sibyl's eyes.
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His fists clenched tighter than they ever had, his arms clung close to his stomach in agony.
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Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously.
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Warm air, slightly moist, caressed her jaw line, swept back the tension from its clenched fist.
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The roars from around the green were acknowledged with a clenched right fist.
Times, Sunday Times
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He clenched his jaw as the pain barrier seemed to break with every passing second.
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Sapphire's eyes looked towards the bodies and her heart clenched painfully once more.
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Christopher clenched his jaw and reached out, shutting his eyes tight as he twisted the handle and jerked the door open.
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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.
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Her face was inscrutable, but her fingers clenched and unclenched beneath the frilled gingham of her pinafore.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Her eyes widened as Jesse stood there, small trickles of blood dripping from his clenched hands.
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His hands clenched tightly, yet a soft cynical laugh escaped from his lips.
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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
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I could see that his teeth were clenched with suppressed emotion; tears or anger I couldn't tell.
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She had grabbed a third apple and had gotten ready to throw it, but remembering herself just in time she clenched her fist.
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Her stomach clenched suddenly, heaving, and she had her answer.
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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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a clenched fist
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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"
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When his chest was pierced, he clenched his fist.
The Sun
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The hand can be either a clenched fist or an open palm, depending upon how the defender wishes to counter attack.
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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.
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His jaw was clenched shut.
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His jaw was clenched tight.
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Check out those clenched fists or hunched shoulders.
The Sun
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his clenched (or clinched) teeth
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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.
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He unclenched his fist slowly, and stared at the paper in his hand.
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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He hissed and clenched his fists so tightly I saw a trail of blood slide down his palms.
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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
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My body clenched in anticipation of the bullets that would rip through it.
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He clenched his fists so tightly that he broke the skin on his palms.
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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
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Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket, fists clenched inside the pockets, eyes little worry beads of suspicion.
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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
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He wasn't at all surprised to see that her hands had been clenched into fists.
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She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling.
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His face changed color to a kind of grayish purple, and his hands clenched slowly at his sides.
Pagan Passions
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For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Those thoughts continued, fear shot through Shanza so strongly that his stomach clenched in a knot and he went white with fright.
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He said furiously through teeth that were clenched tightly together.
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Burnell put a clenched fist under his nose.
Somewhere East of Life
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My face formed into a look of perplexity, and the fibers of my body clenched.
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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.
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He clenched his fists tightly and shook his head slowly from side to side.
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The main picture shows them sitting bolt upright with their hands clenched together in their laps.
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Riley clenched his teeth together, glaring hatefully at the girl.
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Andy clenched his jaw, snapping at a girl that tried to offer him drugs.
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I want to be a writer, to make my living at it, earn a crust doing something I love rather than cooler kinging it through to a clapped out retirement, stomach clenched in anger at every slap of the baseball in the mitt as I was serving my time.
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He grabbed onto the ledge of the lab table, clenched it tightly and braced his legs.
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As she panted towards her second floor apartment, she clenched her palms against the banisters, as she had done in the parlour.
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But serves in the match wins the plate bureau, the Chinese artificial flower with gold- foil clenched the teeth to save a inventorying, afterward succeeded breaks, pulled evenly 6:6 the score.
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She glanced at him again, but he was focused on some indiscernible thing in front of him, his jaw clenched as they walked forward.
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He staggered up the steps and confronted me, jaw clenched and eyes stony, as if he had seen a ghost.
Times, Sunday Times
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I guess McCain figured I didn't support the amendment (I didn't), because his jaw clenched, his face turned red, and he launched into a tirade.
Archive 2008-04-01
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His jaw clenched as he walked in two swift strides to the door and pulled it open, nearly yanking it off the hinges.
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A small, black satchel lay over his left shoulder, and a 4-foot long wooden staff was clenched firmly in his right paw.
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He brought the clenched fist of his free hand down in two blows, rat-tat, on Michael's paws.
CHAPTER XXIII
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He had a pipe clenched between his teeth.
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This proved impossible: the fist was too tightly clenched in its terminal seizure.
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He clenched his fists in frustration.
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Rilleta clenched her hands on the reins until they bit into her hands and her mount stepped, shaking her head.
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He had his fists clenched tightly around his tanto.
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I also noticed her jaw was clenched very tightly and she was very stiff and pale.
The Sun
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I also noticed her jaw was clenched very tightly and she was very stiff and pale.
The Sun
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His eyes danced with anger and he had his fingers clenched into a tight ball.
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He saw the unfairness of it all, the hopelessness of it, the cowardly subterfuge and trickery of life itself as it had played against him, and with tightly set lips and clenched hands he called mutely on God Almighty to play the game square.
The River's End
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They should be engaged in institution-building, not armor-plating the clenched fists of African dictators.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: J'Accuse!
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Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.
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Though suspecting that he is being sidetracked until his bosses are reassured of his nerves, the dark, clenched Eyal poses as a tour guide and insinuates himself into the lives of these blonde, open-faced, boundlessly naive Germans.
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The defendant began punching her with clenched fists to her back and head area.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I lowered my clenched fist and released the green die onto the doodle pad in front of me: a five.
THE DICE MAN
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White hair poked out from under his cap and a pipe was clenched between his teeth.
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My hands convulsively clenched, my teeth clamped together, my nostrils flared, my lips curled, and a red mist descended in front of my eyes.
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The idea is that a monkey inserts its hand, clenches it around the maize, and then cannot withdraw its clenched fist.
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William Joyce presented the clenched fist in an armour of brass knuckles.
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But now the whole poetic achievement - Eliot's journey from chaos to a clenched, intense Christianity - is available in a slightly more wieldy form.
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Christopher clenched his jaw, fighting back the sharp retort and the wave of agony-driven rage as the carriage lurched to a stop outside the Donovan home.
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Unable to really listen to her, I merely nodded, teeth still clenched together in torment.
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He clenched his fist, then, crushing the leaf.
The Broken God
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She's braying at some clever comment he's made, and he's smiling through clenched teeth.
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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
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Sometimes this can lead to the unclenching of a previously clenched, painful phantom, suggesting a promising new therapeutic approach for phantom pain.
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That said, I am sure that they will be taking their soup through clenched teeth.
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Dad clenched and unclenched his fists while mom sat there giving me this disapproving look.
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Well," said Mrs. Fox, firmly, as if the name clenched the matter,
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
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He clenched his fists so tightly that he broke the skin on his palms.
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He had his right hand in a clenched fist with his thumb sticking up.
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The sweat continued to drip off him, and he clenched and unclenched his fist in anxiety.
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She clenched her fists tightly and narrowed her eyes at the memory.
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The muscles along her stomach clenched, and her insides contracted with a searing pain.
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The old man clenched his fist and waved it angrily at us.
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I ducked into the first washroom I came across, locked myself in the first stall and clenched my eyes shut, silent sobs making my chest heave.
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She clenched her fists and tightened her body, trying to stop every muscle from prickling with fear.
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As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth.
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Henin clenched her fist and blew a kiss to the crowd.
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Rational Review
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His eyes were bulging, and his fists were clenched so tight they went as white as the stripes on his shirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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She felt a rage boiling up inside her and she clenched her fists.
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Cavendish clenched his fists and smiled as he crossed the line a split second in front of runner-up Tyler Farrar of the United States and third-place finisher Romain Feillu of France.
Cavendish ices Tour de France stage victory; Cancellara leads
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Forceful jaw closure is a function of these muscles; the masseter that runs from the cheek bone to the angle of the jaw can easily be felt bulging and hardening when the teeth are clenched.
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A professional nod, but his hand clenched on the top of the chairback beside him, his skin having the warm golden-brown tone of someone whose ancestry appeared to be a mix of Asian and Caucasian.
Excerpt - Bonds of Justice
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Birds that contract avian botulism lose involuntary muscle control, including eyelid function, have clenched feet, and can't hold up their heads.
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He clenched his jaw and went from one day to the next.
Christianity Today
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The clenched fist is an amazingly versatile social tool.
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His expression seldom changes, with his cool stare and clenched jaw, the product of military schooling, but he's no less demanding or intense than Carril once was.
This Coach Has a Coach, Too
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With a lead clenched less than firmly in his sweaty palm, he then contrived to play a dog of a game in the middle of the second set.
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She had a gun clenched tightly in her hand.
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At this moment they were directed straight into her lap, where her tiny hands were clenched in anguish.
