What is "white-knuckle"

Usage examples of "white-knuckle".

He swung around so that Marshal Fagin stayed on the hot side of the bird, then tensed up his shoulders and dipped down into the gauntlet and white-knuckled it on through, muttering to himself as he went.

Fenton and Vickers both sat down, but Debbie still stood, clutching the overhead rail with a white-knuckled hand.

In the bow, Davyd clutched his musket with white-knuckled ringers, little more color in his face.

So intense was that cry of agony that I saw Danilo, impassive behind Lord Edric, flinch and tighten his hands into white-knuckled fists at his sides.

His bound hands squeezed into white-knuckled fists, as though he were imagining them around Boba Fett's neck.

She could feel it in the tightening of her sinews, the white-knuckled clenching of her fists, that overtook her every time she found the reflection of her face caught in the dark visor of Boba Fett's helmet.

In the corners of his eyes he could see filthy, white-knuckled hands on either side of the metal bar and he knew his captor was behind the stump, arms stretched around it.

And, given the white-knuckled force he was using to hold the Queeb and its death in contact, I thought he should be taken quite seriously indeed.

Tsui snickered, hanging white-knuckled onto the sides of the stretcher as it rose up another step.

He looked at Chekov: the ensign was clutching the strap of the golf bag with one white-knuckled hand, his tam o'shanter with the other.

White-knuckling, I turtled forward, squinting to see through the blanket of white.

The mix of granny drivers too timid to merge, urban cowboys determined to prove their macho behind the wheel of their pickups, guys who’d stopped off for “one for the road” before heading home after work, midwest Yuppies in Range Rovers, and people who just plain shouldn’t have been allowed in the driver’s seat all made for some white-knuckle maneuvering.