Genevieve realized that in the clinches he was not being beaten--why, then, did not the referee let him hold on?
In the clinches it was he who brought his fist down on the small of the back, striking the terrible kidney blow.
The rest of the round, the three long minutes of it, was a succession of clinches and breaks.
He was knocked to the canvas backwards, and sideways, was punched in the clinches and in the breakaways--stiff, jolty blows that dazed his brain and drove the strength from his muscles.
He knew only the blind desire to destroy, shook Joe in the clinches as a terrier might a rat, strained and struggled for freedom of body and arms, and all the while Joe calmly clutched and held on.
Three times they fell into clinches from sheer exhaustion to be pried apart by the referee, only to go at each other again.
Twice they stumbled into clinches and were torn apart by the pitiless Gannon.
As to the hailstorm, he lays great stress upon the plague of hail sent by the Almighty upon Egypt, and clinches all by insisting that God showed at Mount Sinai his purpose to startle the body before impressing the conscience.
Should the horse step upon the shoe, no horn will be removed with the shoe, as is usually done when the clinches are left long and then turned down with the hammer.
In such cases, the shoe will be torn off, no matter how solid the clinches hold, and it is better to come away without breaking the hoof.
The shoes will stay just as long, as we can testify by four years' experience, and the advantages are that the horn is not injured by filing below the clinches nor by the strokes of the hammer during the operation.
The shoe was roughly but strongly nailed on with eight nails, the clinches of which were all firm.
Look at him, Baldassare; see how he stares about, and clinches his fist.
His family are ranged in a solid phalanx of indignant opposition, which of course clinches the matter firmly.
His family are ranged in a solid phalanx of indignant opposition, which, of course, clinches the affair firmly.
After raising the clinches of the nails with a rather dull clinch cutter ("buffer") and drawing the nails one at a time, the old shoe is critically examined and laid aside.
Note the straight toe, weak ring formation running parallel to the coronet, clinches low down and on a level, length of the shoe, and the under-bevel at the toe and heel.
Sometimes coincidence merely clinches a mistake, as it so oftenclinches a misprint.
But unfortunately the combination of the two rather clinches the conception of our decline.
It is probable enough that the conception came originally from the healing of the wood of the Cross; but that only clinches the divine coincidence.
Also, in the clinches King rested his weight on his opponent, and was loath to let go.
He never missed an opportunity to clinch, and in effecting most of the clinches his shoulder drove stiffly into the other's ribs.
Sometimes, in deep privacy he clinches his fist and mentally calls his betrothed "a love-sick dromedary!
He clinches his fist and bites his lip, when on a sudden he recalls the rustle of a robe in the next room, which he thought he heard at one time during his interview with Selina.
This clinches the matter," said Mrs. Ogilvie, "I will begin ordering the furniture immediately.
This clinches matters," he said, and he gave a significant glance at Grayleigh.
Your letter from Clinches has just come, and I don't think I like her at all.
If you were not at Clinches I could have had an answer to-morrow; as it is, I must wait till Wednesday.
Your description of the Cheriton menage at Clinchesis like fairyland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clinches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
