CLENCH in a Sentence

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91 example sentences for CLENCH, such as:

1. Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
2. I'll sit and clench my teeth and never tell you one thing.
3. Scarlett's nails dug into her palms as she clenched her fists.
4. Scarlett's eyes began to snap fire and her hands to clench and unclench.
5. but at that point he would stamp, or grind his teeth, and clench his fists.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLENCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clench
 v.  close tightly; grasp or grip tightly; fasten with a clinch
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  I forgot to mention that he would talk to himself sometimes, and grin, and clench his fist, and grind his teeth, and pull his hair in an unaccountable manner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
2  His strong loose hands clench themselves, in his earnestness; and he emphasizes what he says with a right arm that shows, in my pigmy view, like a sledge-hammer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
3  It was in the state of my own feelings, I added bashfully: to clench the explanation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
4  The sound of Suellen's tears, just back of her shoulder, irritated her unbearably and she had to clench her fists to keep from turning and slapping the swollen face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Scarlett's eyes began to snap fire and her hands to clench and unclench.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  I'll sit and clench my teeth and never tell you one thing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  but at that point he would stamp, or grind his teeth, and clench his fists.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Ethan's hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clenched his fist against her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  She sprang to her feet, her hands clenched and he rose towering over her, his face full of the mute misery of one forced to face realities when realities are agonies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  She pounded her clenched fist against the tall white pillar beside her, and she wished that she were Samson, so that she could pull down all of Twelve Oaks and destroy every person in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  I was crying because I'm so happy, and suddenly she opened her clenched palm and pressed some object that was in it to her lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  She squeezed the clay so tightly it ran out from her clenched fist and she said over and over, parrot-like: "I've still got this."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  Scarlett's nails dug into her palms as she clenched her fists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  She looked at it in horror and, before she thought, she swiftly clenched her fist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  "Open wide," said the dentist, but Clint seemed to clench his teeth even more tightly than before.
2  Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.