What is "clamped"

Usage examples of "clamped".

Then he clamped his lips so tightly that his eyeteeth were visible under the tightly drawn flesh.

Then he clamped his mouth shut, shooting a quick glance at the rigidly attentive constable.

But remind me not to ride in a crate again,” Kelly said when the last of the gloves were stuffed back into their container, and the top was clamped down again.

Lunzie wanted to argue the point but she clamped her lips firmly shut while Kai and Varian nodded solemnly.

And he clamped his great hand on my shoulder, his eyes gleaming with his fervor.

He clamped his mouth shut and waited through the transition loop, marshaling his arguments.

The pirates had clamped something to the communications console and now he knew what it was.

The stationer's clothes followed, torn away as if they were paper while one hand held her immobilized, clamped to her jaw.

The worm would be here, always probing and testing, as long as the Kolnari battle-computer stayed clamped to the SSS-900-C's system.

He was lying face-down, his limbs clamped in midstride position as firmly as a tangler-field could have done.

The smaller vessel shuddered violently as the freighter's lock clamped on to it.

He put a hand to the back of his head, clamped his eyes shut, then opened them as wide as he could, hoping to dispel his fuzzy vision.

A padded seat caught him, lifted him up and forward several feet into the heart of the circle of magifolk, and the tray across his middle clamped firmly down on the other arm of the chair.

He kept his hands clamped to his chair arms, his teeth gritted tightly as he strove to keep from being sick.

Terrified, the youngster clamped her hands together and returned to her original posture, spine rigid.