CLAMP in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for CLAMP, such as:

1. He returned, only to discover his car had been clamped.
2. The government intends to clamp down on drug smuggling.
3. The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
4. Her hand darted out, fastening over Lawanda's emaciated wrist like a clamp.
5. If the government clamps down on the protestors, that will only serve to strengthen them in the long run.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLAMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clamp
 n.  any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts
Classic Sentence:
1  Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
2  Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  The bed had iron clamps, but they were screwed to the wood, and it would have required a screw-driver to take them off.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
4  It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  At first, Melanie wanted to hold Scarlett's hand when the pain was bad but she clamped down on it so hard she nearly broke the bones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  She was writing busily, her face screwed up with the effort, her tongue clamped between her teeth, when the front door opened and a great draft of cold wind swept the store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
Example Sentence:
1  The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
2  The government intends to clamp down on drug smuggling.
3  Her hand darted out, fastening over Lawanda's emaciated wrist like a clamp.
4  If the government clamps down on the protestors, that will only serve to strengthen them in the long run.
5  He returned, only to discover his car had been clamped.