It seemed that there was a fearsome pursuer at his very heels, reaching for him with eager, clawlike hands.
The latter had likewise risen, and with a sweep of his arm he brushed aside Hooker's clawlike hand, at the same time driving his fist hard and straight at Roy's face.
About him on all sides men were tearing their meat with clawlike hands, digging their fangs into it in wolfish ferocity.
At that moment Mrs. Hilmer's clawlike fingers closed over her husband's mangled thumb with a clutch of triumph and she had turned with a painful twist to dart her venomous scorn at Helen.
She took his face between her two clawlike fingers.
A half hour later a monstrous man with glittering eyes and clawlike fingers came in, carrying breakfast--a large dishpan filled with a slimy mush, two slices of dry bread, and a mound of greasy hash.
But at the very threshold the old woman met her with a snarl of rage, slapping her in the face with a skinny, clawlike hand as she vociferated: "Take that for disobeying me, girl!
With a hoarse cry like that of an animal deprived of its young, his uncle sprang upon him, and fastened his clawlikenails in the face of his burly nephew.
Luckily, on the smooth marble it could not get an efficient grip with itsclawlike arms.
She followed the direction of his eyes, and saw long, clawlike marks on the floor, radiating from the sepia.
It went only a few inches; it was still far below the holster when Latimer's clawlike fingers descended to the butt of his own weapon.
The clawlikefingers began to straighten; imperceptibly at first, and then with a spasmodic motion that flexed the muscles in little jerks.
The brute was quite close now--creeping with clawlike hands extended toward her around the end of the altar.
For a long time he lay caressing the emaciated, clawlike thing that had once been the beautiful, shapely white hand of the young Baltimore belle.
The boys and girls were frightened of his clawlike hands and flaming eye, and so they screamed and ran away.
The Storm Wind's wicked spell had changed him, and the Little Brown Man with flaming eye and clawlike hand was very fierce and terrible to look upon.
Amont these, a few pencil jottings for his great defence of Charlotte Corday were eagerly seized upon by Merlin, and his grimy, clawlike hands fastened upon this scrap of paper, as upon a welcome prey.
With a rough gesture he put hisclawlike hand under her delicate chin, forcing her to turn round and to look at him.
Mother Jess reached with her clawlike weeder far into the border.
It proved to be weeding with a clawlike thing that, wielded by Aunt Jessica's right hand, grubbed out weeds as fast as she could toss them into a basket with her left.
And patted the little clawlike hand, and the bit of white hair beneath the fluted cap, and a bit of old lace fastened with an old ivory cameo and covering the old throat.
So black and so bristly of head, his little clawlike hands hovering over the bow, Leon Kantor withdrew a note, strangely round and given up almost sobbingly from the single string.
The clawlike hands dropped from the freckled face.
I know just what I would like," sighed Henrietta, clasping her clawlike hands.
Then a clawlike hand came out through the bushes and seemed to reach toward him, while a howl that was blood-curdling came from the creature's lips.
The monster snarled with satisfaction and sought to clutch his throat with those clawlike hands.
Guichard stood behind him, a clawlike hand perched on his master's shoulder.
Slowly, deliberately, a clawlike hand was withdrawn from a fold of the blanket, and the feeble rays of the fire glinted weakly upon the cold, gray steel of a polished blade.
A skinny hand was withdrawn from the blanket and the clawlike fingers clutched a fragment of broken knife-blade.
The members of this family have vestiges of pelvis and hind limbs, appearing externally as clawlike spurs.
Their strong, clawlike nails enable them to climb onto ice floes or the shore, to which they resort for rest and sunshine and to bear their young.
Those little rivers or "beeks," which ran between the knobby fingers of the clawlike range of ridges, were blown out of their channels and slopped over into broad swamps.
The bare arms were long and sinewy, ending in strong, bony hands with clawlike fingers--almost talonlike in their suggestiveness.
Constantly its clawlike fingers played with one or the other of these weapons.
Instantly the clawlike fingers released their hold, and the creature sank limply to the floor beside Bradley, who lay for several minutes gasping painfully in an effort to regain his breath.
Loud wails arose, great wings opened and closed with a loud, beating noise and many clawlike hands reached forth to clutch him.
The grippers also had a sort of clawlike arrangement on either end, working on the principle of an "orange-peel" shovel, and these claws were designed to grip the earth to prevent slipping.
Straight across the stream they were pulled, their clawlike ends coming to a rest on the opposite bank.
One bony arm with its clawlike hand encircled the rag doll that she had held that day when Helen took the two children into the country.
The tiny, clawlike fingers plucked at the coverlet.
The clawlike hands or handlike claws lifted him and thrust him on the way that was being chosen for him.
His hands grew clawlike as he reached for the guns.
The old gun-man looked at Jane and then at his clawlike hands and then at Fay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clawlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aquiline; beaked; billed; crooked; hooked
