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clenched
  1. Closed tightly. v

  2. (en-past of: clench)

WordNet
clenched

adj. closed or squeezed together tightly; "a clenched fist"; "his clenched (or clinched) teeth" [syn: clinched]

Usage examples of "clenched".

Marsali sat down, reached under her arisaid to unfasten her bodice, and set the baby to her breast, her lip clenched between her teeth with trepidation.

Sabin clenched his fists but he succeeded in keeping his head down until the Atabeg had passed.

McGruder, standing protectively close to his leader as usual, beckoned the Blackshirt forward and I saw whose arm he clenched.

He bounded off the end, snatched a bicycle away from the wall, and pedalled quickly out of sight while he bleated shrill blasts on a police whistle clenched between his teeth.

No longer passive, the naked brownette clenched her arms and thighs round her virile mature lover-master, and held to him for dear life as he foraged lingeringly in her love-citadel till once more her amorous tides were shatteringly swept up on the beach of bliss.

He looked unconcerned, almost amused, with Carnie leaning limply against him, but his left hand was clenched, the thumb moving up and down as if he were clicking the sparker.

Then he lifted his right arm in what was at first a clenched fist of victory, and then developed into a Churchillian V for victory salute all the while looking directly at Karen.

The teeth of the cowpuncher clenched tightly till the muscles of the jaw stood out like ropes.

Now, dropped to one knee on the dance floor, bills clenched in his fist, he was every bit the boy she had known since junior high and loved since high school.

His fists were clenched so tight he could feel the nails driving into his palms, but he made himself smile frostily at the two newsmen.

He wrenched on the reins, the Palomino responding magnificently, the horse slewing to an abrupt stop, even as Geronimo rose to his full height, the lance clenched in his right fist.

Mailer and his senior military advisors, fists clenched, stare at the image of Viktor Grozny, the pale Russian president wearing a black sweater, a large Victorian cross dangling from his neck.

Chagrined, he clenched his hands behind him while she returned hers behind her head.

Norit had clenched her arms across her stomach and Hati had her hands braced before her mouth, gazing at nothing at all.

The Iceni warrior pulled his tunic off and stood bare-chested, arms raised and fists clenched, bunching his muscles for the delectation of the crowd.