clutched

That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.

As he entered the canyon, he clutched his chest and fell to the sidewalk.

“The voices made me do it,” he said, and theatrically clutched both sides of his head.

Contestants, huddled on the couches of a communal room, clutched their faces in shock and some broke into sobs.

Each model clutched a Bloomsbury bag in one hand, all a variation on the new, hand-painted leather and suede piece.

The ideal is not a thing to be clutched at, or taken by force, but all of the conditions—every tittle—must be fulfilled.

I clutched at the straw you held out to me, and saved myself at a cost greater than the world can ever know.

On landing, the old prince, trembling from top to toe, with despairing glance clutched the arm of the Governor for protection.

Engel called "Fourteen" and got out there, briefcase tightly clutched up under his arm, its flap unbuckled.

But he had no time for sentiment; he grabbed the reef-earring with his left hand, and clutched at the man with his right.