Exempel på clutching

• Clutching a yard-long stick, the radiologist who pointed out what was "strikingly abnormal" about the scans made the presentation even stranger.

• The students find it quite amusing to see themselves clutching their throats to feel the difference, but it works.

• Clutching mattresses and bundles of clothes, the children were driven west through the dark countryside.

• They looked down and away from the camera, clutching their wraps, feeling shy and unhappy (plates 11-13).

• The arts and sports lobbies are clutching at the national lottery in desperation because they see no other source of public revenue.

• At the weekend he was up in the north-west, clutching at straws, hoping to salvage seats.

• It is no use clutching at the slight fall of a few pfennigs since the summit agreeing monetary union as a hope for the future.

• There are many selective statistics, lots of clutching at straws and lots of hopes for recovery.

• But there is still too much clutching at straws.

• It is like clutching a straw to justify one's conclusions.

• Indeed, we all seem to be clutching a copy.

• He was precipitated down the chute clutching a doll to his bosom.

• The woman, clutching her children, arrives at the police station and is given solace by a policewoman or social worker, but what happens then?

• My constituents go away clutching a piece of paper with my telephone number on it.

• It is not the closed fist and the clutching hand that will change these conditions.