So she took her wadded handkerchief and jammed it once into each eye and jabbed once at each cheek, and then, holding it tight in her clenched fist, made up her mind to stop.
They knew what she meant; and behind her they massed themselves, their bodies bent forward from their waists, their heads lowered and their hands clenched like swimmers about to breast a swift torrent.
He sat up straight now, his eyes ashine and his hands clenched on the arms of his chair.
First they passed down the judge, breathing and whole but unconscious, with his nightshirt torn off his back and his bare right arm still clenched round a picture of some sort in a heavy gilt frame.
Without another word, Wilton instantly knocked him down with one blow of his clenched fist, and at the same moment he called out aloud, "Captain Byerly!
He laughed through clenched teeth at a situation so bitterly ironical.
Then, suddenly, with hands clenched behind his back, he checked by the window, checked on a horrible question that had flashed upon his tortured mind.
Her father's face grew very stern, and he clenched his hand.
He said nothing further, and there was a strained silence while he sat, leaning forward limply, with bent head, and a thin handclenched hard upon the table.
She was flushed and overstrung, but her pose and expression suggested that she was defying the rest, and she cast a hard, unsympathetic glance at Gertrude, who sat limply, with clenched hands.
He stood silent, with one hand clenched tight, while Gertrude watched him with hard, unwavering eyes.
He was constricting it in his hand and knocking his clenched knuckles on the marble.
A very big man, and with a very big and massive face and terrific eyes who started up and raised clenched fists and had his jaws working.
Clenched fist and half his body over the box towards Sabre.
Now, fair Marguerite Blakeney," he added viciously between his clenched teeth, "I think that you will help me to find the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The childlike sweet face had become hard and set, the curved mouth was closed tightly over her clenched teeth.
It would be impossible at this point to record the exact exclamation which escaped through Mr. Harry Waite's clenched teeth.
His clenched nails dug into the palms, but he forced himself back to calmness.
Nor did he know, as his face lay hidden in his clenched hands, that the magic hilt of the sword was glowing like a shining promise far over the sleeping world.
From beneath his clenched fingers a dazzling glare had suddenly broken forth--a glare so intense and blinding that for a moment he could see nothing but its luminous rays!
It was caught between his clenched teeth and a brown juice ran out of the corners of his mouth down into his beard.
And then the bed began to tilt again, it turned upside down, and Gaupa clenched his fists, holding on for dear life till the perspiration ran down his skull.
He struck the palm of one hand a great blow with his clenched fist.
She stood up before the window and with her clenched fists she beat against the sills.
Selingman suddenly struck the table with his clenched fist.
Eloise told him all she thought necessary to tell him, while his face grew purple with anger, and his clenched fists beat the air as if attacking an imaginary Homer Smith.
The Hawk's hand curled suddenly into a clenched fist, and his face grew set.
The shorter of the two suddenly raised a clenched fist.
And now the other lifted one of his clenched hands above his head.
But our Miss Smith, knowing what she did know, held a clenchedhand to the lump that had formed in her throat.
And then, before the dazed boy had time to understand what she was trying to do, Betty had thrust ten dollars into his partially clenched hand and jumping back into her sleigh had driven rapidly away.
And then standing with a white face andclenched teeth she watched Mollie read the message.
And Polly shut her lips tight together andclenched her hands.
Oh, I wish I had known of this sooner," he declared, while his hands clenched hard.
Then he saw Glen standing with Reynolds by the side of the street, and turning swiftly around he faced the Golden Crest, and lifting his dirty bleeding right hand, he shook his clenched fist, and hurled forth a stream of terrible imprecations.
Sometimes they were on the edge of such dizzy heights that Miss Campbell held her breath and clenched her teeth to keep from crying out.
His lips twitched convulsively and he clenched his hands as if he were trying to choke the thoughts that would rise in his mind.
Slowly, he clenched his fists and gouged them into his thighs.
They just clenched their hands and hung on Wilfred's wild, free words.
The man who loved her alone perceived that the girl was stricken, and that, with hand clenched hard against her heart, she was resolutely striving to control her throbbing pulses.
As these bitter truths flashed upon her, Diane clenched her hands, flushing into a sudden rage of bitter humiliation.
Then her hands clenchedand her whole frame began to shake.
The man's jaws clenched so tightly that their outlines showed white on his cheeks.
She leaned forward a little and looked intently, piercingly straight into her face, and Sybil noticed that the woman's hand resting on the box ledge clencheditself hard.
I see"--he looked up at her and down again at his podgy, fat hands, clenched together.
The knowledge that even this could not kill love was what clenched his hands.
She faced them as someone brought suddenly to bay, her hands clenched at her sides, two flags of colour flaming in her cheeks.
She had clenched her hands in her lap; he did not notice that, but he could see that the colour had fled from her face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clenched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
