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Example sentences for "hands clasped"

  • Upon the word, "ran," jump into the left aisle with hands clasped overhead.

  • I knelt on the floor, with my hands clasped on the edge of the bed, and my eyes riveted on the face of the sleeper.

  • I remained seated on one of the bags of Indian corn at the foot of the bed, my hands clasped on my knees, and my eyes fixed on the inanimate face and closed eyelids of the sufferer.

  • I fell on my knees before her, with my hands clasped, and my disordered hair falling over my face.

  • He leaned on his elbows, hands clasped, looking out into the sunlight where myriads of brilliant butterflies were fluttering over the carpet of white phlox.

  • But she looked at him, unsmiling, while he spoke, hands clasped in her lap, the fingers twisting and tightening till the rose-tinted nails whitened.

  • She sat very still and thoughtful, hands clasped on her knee.

  • Hands clasped on my empty stomach I lay looking up at the sky through the matted leaves that thatched my forest roof, too tired even to drink.

  • I judged that the two men had thrown their arms over the capsized canoe, and thus, hands clasped, were making out to keep afloat; for in this manner only can a capsized canoe serve two men.

  • Hands clasped behind me, I walked up and down the muddy alley, twisting my interlocked fingers until every nail throbbed.

  • Carmencita's hands clasped tightly, and in her voice was eager trembling.

  • Presently she stood off and surveyed her work and, hands clasped behind, began to count, her head nodding with each number.

  • Hands clasped, her forehead puckered in fine folds, then she looked up.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrived safely; blue glass; civil engineer; desert country; escaped convict; forty thousand; great variety; hands and; hands clasped; hands together; hands upon; handsome fellow; handsome fortune; handsome girl; handsome house; handsome woman; handsome youth; hath also; her letters; large extent; other fruit; pamphlet entitled; pure thought; small distance from the; take wing; transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana