Finally, the customer applies the clinching argument that brushes all sophisms aside, and bids the turtle stand protoplasm to protoplasm with himself, to know even as it is known.
If there have been women--" Frona had been clinching her hand nervously, but at the word burst out in laughter.
The far-off clinching and mating of the arches, the leap and thrust of the stone, carrying a great roof overhead, awed and silenced her.
He came to her, and cleaved to her very close, like steel cleaving and clinching on to her.
Race prejudice played upon becomes a tool in clinching the power of the labour monopoly.
If these Negroes become doctors and merchants or buy their own farms," a Southern woman said to me as a clinching argument against Negro education, "what shall we do for servants?
The carrier paid his dues, came up to Edward, and spoke ten words in a confidential whisper: then sprang upon the shafts of his vehicle, gave a clinching nod of significance to Springrove, and rattled away.
The clinching and triumphant deed would be to take the body and place it among the ruins of the destroyed house.
With a leap like a cat he threw himself upon Buxton, hurled him back, and stood at the closed door confronting them with blazing eyes and clinching fists.
I'll be going to France in a few months--" She leaned away from him and clinching her fists lifted her face toward the sky.
An improved combined cutting and clinching tool has been patented by Mr. Peter D.
The object of this invention is to provide a new, useful, and convenient tool for cutting and clinching horseshoe nails.
If the leg bones were removed they should be fastened back in place by drilling small holes through them at the joints, inserting a piece of brass wire and clinching the ends over.
Then Archer gently laid his hand upon the slender fingers that seemed clinching his arm, and with sudden little gasp or sob, and shiver, Lilian whirled upon him, her eyes big and dry and glittering.
Harris was weak and pallid from suffering when lifted to his couch in the doctor's quarters, bearing it all with closed eyes and clinching teeth, suppressing every sound.
Until this time they have been overlooked in the general investigation and silence has been maintained by the fire department for the purpose of clinching the evidence concerning them.
Return cards, employing the absolute guarantee to insure confidence of fair dealing give clinching power.
One of the essentials to the clinching of an order is the enclosures such as order blanks and return envelopes--subjects that are sufficiently important to call for separate chapters.
Your one big purpose is to get the order, and no matter how clever you may be three-fourths of the way through, if the letter falls short of clinching the order in the end, it may as well not have been written at all.
What is triviality to a man is frequently theclinching statement with a woman.
The bitter-end is the clinching end--sometimes that end is bent to the anchor, because it has never been used, and is more trustworthy.
They are driven through the plank and the corresponding timber, and retained in this position by a clinching ring.
Besides, Thad was more or less curious to know just what that clinching argument might be, which Jim meant to advance, and which he seemed so positive would bring the determined old man around.
The clinching was done, by putting an axe under the part of the ladder where a nail was coming through, and then driving.
To remedy this difficulty, it is found best to heat nails intended for clinching before driving them.
Mrs. Lynne's breath was coming thick and fast; her pale eyes scintillated; her hands were clinching each other convulsively.
Out in the hall he came to a pause, clinchinghis shaking hands upon the head of his cane, his face pale and agitated, a look in the depths of his sunken dark eyes which was not pleasant to see.
But Norah Shaughnessy, from the gable window of the Trumans' quarters, shook a hard-clinching Irish fist and showered malediction after the swiftly speeding ambulance.
Wiley wanted to add clinching verisimilitude to the document and took a long shot.
But I'm out for higher stakes--" She paused, clinchingher hands.
He contents himself with pretending to be in a great passion and biting his finger, which gesture may be collated with the emotional clinching of the teeth and biting the lips in anger, common to all mankind.
I do not recollect thatclinching of the hands is a usual symptom of ordinary tetanus, nor do I remember any twisting of the foot.
There was slight clinchingof the hands, but I think no locking of the jaw.
He kept one foot inside the door-way as his arrest demanded, but leaning far out, with blazing eyes and clinching fist he hurled his challenge at the quartermaster in a voice that rang along the row like the "to arms" of the trumpets.
Nor could she dance to the viol's tune, When the drum was throbbing throughout the land, Or dream in the light of the summer moon, When Treason was clinching his mailed hand.
Oh, but, Lady Constantine, if you only knew what it is to a person engaged in science to have the means of clinching a theory snatched away at the last moment!
Wegg, who was all forclinching the nail he had so strongly driven home, announced that Boffin should see it without an hour's delay.
Jonathan of the no surname, clinching the quartette.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clinching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
