This question was answered by a universal 'Yes;' and by way of clenching the affair, I ordered a couple of gallons of the stiffest potheen in the house.
He was shaking his head as men do when they are arguing with themselves, and his hands were clenching and unclenching spasmodically.
Without another look at his only son Mr. Leigh walked out of the room, his face grim, his lips pressed tightly together, his fists clenching and unclenching.
His isn't over yet," cried the Colonel, clenching his trembling hand.
Miss Ethel, quivering with wrath and clenching the luckless paper in her hand.
My excitement was not of the healthy, gleeful breed, but rather the stomach-clenching variety that I would "wish away" if it was possible.
Actually I, the sitter, was the abused party; I would return home after an evening of utter turmoil clenching three dollars in my hand.
Clenching my purse, I couldn't wait to relinquish the folded bills in my wallet.
Nor could they note the change from an expression of startled surprise to slitlike, venomous points of fire that took place in the eyes of the listening girl--nor the clenching fists.
The bitterness of the young man's soul found expression only in a hardening of the jaw and a clenching of the mighty fists.
The sight of the cab in front drove these thoughts away, though, and, clenching his teeth, he shook his head as if to clear his brain for the one object in view.
The moment they were inside the room, Clotilde rushed into the middle, gritting her teeth together and clenching her fists.
And, watching, Gillian drew a deep breath, clenchingher hands convulsively.
With her face hidden in the soft rug, her outflung hands clenching convulsively, she wept in an abandonment of sorrow.
He never forgot that hard, utterly lonely and stubborn clenching of her mouth, which persisted for weeks.
He shuddered violently, clenching his teeth and fists hard to keep control.
Mrs. Nettleship, clenching her hands, and regarding the valet as if she would annihilate him.
I don't know,' replied Sikes, clenching his teeth and turning white at the mere suggestion.
Lowering her head and clenching her fists, she broke into the dining-room, throwing back the door with a crash.
Goudayevskaya, rustling with the remaining ears of corn of her costume, dashed at Veriga, clenching her fists and screamed piercingly: "Go away!
And she threw herself towards the Geisha, with piercing screams, clenching her bony fists.
Squaring his mighty shoulders and clenching his fists, he leaped at him headlong.
I strode up and down upon the mountain-top, clenching my hands with rage.
Clenching his teeth in a paroxysm of anger, he again turned to follow Paullus and Decius, who had passed into the ranks of the legions and joined themselves to the personal volunteers of the pro-consul, Servilius.
His soft features were distorted to a hideous expression of malignancy, with rage at his own impotence, and he strode up and down, up and down, like a beast in a cage, clenching his fists.
With a sort of low bellow, which broke from him involuntarily, he rushed at her, clenching his fists, and she mechanically shrank back.
I must keep calm," she heard herself say, as she fastened the long coat, clenching her teeth to keep them from chattering.
She held up her hand clenching the letter and shook it at him.
The impetuous Signor strode up and down, clenching his fists, cursing slavery, and sending Fitzgerald to the Devil in a volley of phrases hard enough in their significance, though uttered in soft-flowing Italian.
And clenching her teeth hard, she again said, "I hate him!
The Italian strode up and down the room, clenching his fist, and talking rapidly.
He was in a dream, a trance, his great hands knotting and clenching unconsciously as he stared at the mark unmistakable by which he had said that he would some day identify the murderer of Captain Somers.
On divers occasions, now, I have come unexpectedly upon him and found him muttering to himself with grim set face, or clenching and unclenching his big square fists and grinding his teeth.
With a heart that felt as if ready to burst with conflicting emotions, the poor midshipman looked on, clenching his teeth to prevent unwise exclamations, and unclenching his fists to prevent the tendency to commit assault and battery!
Peter, glaring and clenchinghis fists in an agony of uncertainty how to act.
Clenching my nerves, I stooped and passed my hand over the smooth slabs, and felt their flat unbroken surface.
Sick with terror, I layclenching the sheet in my hands.
The fisherman, clenching the nail he had just driven in, turned his eyes in the direction to which Dick pointed.
The farmer listened to all the bailiff said, while Dick sat clenchinghis hands, with his eyes to the ground, every now and then giving a look at his mother.
The trumpeter protested his innocence, and O'Grady called him a lying rascal, finishing his abuse by clenching his fist in a menacing attitude, and telling him to play.
Clenching her fists, and summoning all her strength to prevent herself from swooning, Sonia Danidoff led the man to the anteroom door.
And then Juve, for Juve it was, cleverly disguised, uttered a sudden oath, clenching his fists and grinding his teeth in rage.
Struck from behind, Charlot fell like a log to the floor, while Lady Beltham recoiled in terror, clenching her fists to prevent herself from screaming.
Luisa rose and turned to look towards Cressogno, clenching her fists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clenching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
