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Sentence Examples With mike in hand, he attempted to sing, but women, clawing ravenously, shredded his shirt. Sixty seconds later, he swerved away from the keeper's clawing gloves to stroke home his 21st goal of an astounding debut campaign. The woman had flung herself against the locked door, clawing at the wood with her fingernails. She started clawing at the mattress until she broke it open and scattered the fluffy insides all over the cell. But just beyond the horizon a storm may be brewing with blinding rain and clawing winds of change that can tear our tranquil world apart. They rolled around on the floor, angrily scratching and slapping and clawing at each other. The girl was screeching and wailing at the same time as clawing and pinching Leanne. I recall a vivid childhood dream of being trapped in a tiny house with a werewolf clawing at the windows and doors. It's just that all the little things that I never used to worry about are now clawing at my mind, and my heart. Yap felt the insects swarming over him, biting and stinging, scraping and clawing, and he realized he had just run out of options. She was diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder and spent eight years clawing her way back to sanity. An alert tabby cat saved an Australian family of four from a house fire by clawing at its owner's face. Say your cat is clawing your couch or your dog is chewing your leather shoe. Hours after the quake rocked central and southern Italy, rescue teams were clawing at the concrete in the search for survivors. I'm thinking of starting a sweepstake on how long it'll be before the cats start clawing at them and bring one down. His free hand scrabbled desperately around, and he began clawing at his attacker. In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop ourselves from cartwheeling down the mountain. But I still have that feeling of suffocation, that my lungs are clawing at the air for a breath. He spent the next two years scraping and clawing his way back into the black. Her arms were spread and arched behind her back, her fingers clawing at the air as if she were trying to slow herself down. Show More Sentences In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop from cartwheeling down the mountain. Tim started yelling about extra innings, waving the bat around and clawing at the charred beams above the furnace. During his time as editor, it consistently won its ratings battle, clawing back ground which had been lost to its great rival over a long period. Ian remembered him best lying in his basket beneath the kitchen table, paws clawing sleepily at his pale blue blanket. In the beginning there was darkness and fingers clawing at loose debris on the ground. A few minutes earlier, the two women had been standing together, talking companionably, and now they were snatching and clawing at each other. He has a number of technical limitations, but he makes up for it by scrapping and clawing his way forward. So I crawled, dragging myself over the ground, clawing my way forward because I couldn't bring myself to give up. The trees would normally be thick, and snag with clawing branches and deceptive leaves, but now they were bare and skeletal, and seemed so weak. United desperately need to win at the Riverside Stadium to maintain their faint hopes of clawing their way back into the title race. How could I when you were practically clawing my hand away every time I tried to steal a bite? Baxter stunned critics and commentators after clawing his way back from eighth position after the first run. And as the diggers began clawing back the earth, workers unearthed old tram lines. Sara leapt at Rin, clawing at her with inch-long nails grimed with dirt as though she had clawed her way up from the grave. One of the old rattlers crawled into the station like a desert explorer desperately clawing his way towards an oasis. Last time I was teaching them however, I was clawing at the door by about two o'clock hoping that someone would walk past so I could grab them and run away. I kept on yelling, while scratching and clawing at something in my back. Three weeks from the caucus, Newt, Romney and Paul are in the top tier with Perry and Bachmann clawing to get back in. They gesture slowly, clawing their hands or placing fingers as rabbit ears to their temples. And Kuszczak denied Ayew a classy second with three minutes left, clawing away the striker's effort after he jinked into the area. Show More Sentences We watch Turner clawing at her, helping himself to her, as though a woman were necessary yet insignificant as a slice of bread. First of all, with effect from next week, there is the clawing back of higher-rate taxpayers' child benefit. This, to my mind, means that the USA is clawing back its good record of placing the emphasis on civil liberties, which is a good thing. It has done this by clawing back at a rate sometimes greater than the payment of equalization. Putting all the money in benefits for working families and clawing back the money for welfare families. Some would argue that clawing back part of the National Child Benefit from parents on welfare creates an incentive to work. By clawing back resource revenue, we were denying those provinces the opportunity to move forward. Nevertheless, despite the promises to one province the federal government is contemplating clawing back money from many other provinces. Provinces and territories would stop clawing back the NCBS once it exceeded their basic welfare benefit for children. Some stopped clawing back when they reformed their welfare programs and implemented new child benefit programs. Second, the government did not take any measure to prevent the provinces from clawing back these new investments from the poorest in our society. Three or four generations were crouched around her, wailing and weeping, some clawing at her still body. If borrowing rates start to climb dramatically, the hope of clawing out of the slump will fade very quickly. She pounced on the man's back, ripping and clawing away at him. He was holding onto the thick leg of an armchair, but tiny, scratching hands were clawing at him, forcing him to loosen his grip more and more gradually. His fingers were clawing at my arms as he tried to get away. They like to mind their own business and will only bother you when they're bored or at election time when they'll hover around the refrigerator clawing at your legs. However, they sometimes pass out or go into frenzies of tearing off their clothes and clawing at their exposed skin, until they receive medical attention by staff on duty. He follows me around, cooing and clawing at me, begging for attention. Every time I closed my eyes I saw that man clawing at his throat. Show More Sentences I make angry pain noises, clawing at her unyielding fingers in agony. Beads of sweat formed on his brow, and he began clawing at his chest. She fell to her knees gasping for air, her hands clawing at her throat. She dropped her staff as she felt its talons clawing at her cheek. The luckiest male mounts the female and remains in position for many hours, unless another male manages to prise him off by biting and clawing at him. When Hell-Cat Maggie screeched her battle cry and rushed biting and clawing into the midst of a mass of opposing gangsters, even the most stout-hearted blanched and fled. If destructive clawing persists, discuss other solutions with your veterinarian such as the application of vinyl nail caps, or as a last option surgical procedures such as tendenectomy or declawing. Nunavut reduced its contribution to the income of the two families on welfare by clawing back the value of the supplement to the federal child tax benefit. Falkirk have this season progressed to the final of the Challenge Cup and the semi-final of the League Cup, as well as clawing themselves back into a championship race. No matter the weekend's result, Arnold carries the demeanour of a injured yabbie trapped in a large bucket, snarling, clawing and dragging down any other yabbies who may want to escape to reach for a new and exciting future. For brands, fickly jumping all-in on the next bandwagon passing through town may be a dangerous investment in time and money to only find themselves clawing back to recover. It was hissing at me and clawing at me and when the police and the dog handler arrived they had some craic catching it. Emily incarcerated in a narrow coffin is photographed as a cross section, claustrophobically clawing at the roof of her living tomb. The report said the co-operation should continue, but current arrangements for clawing back and reinvesting recycled federal money must be abandoned. By 2001, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec joined the first two in not clawing back the supplement, but the majority of jurisdictions still claw back. Because the government has not done anything in this bill about that, we will be making amendments when it goes to committee to stop the provinces from clawing the money back. He may be aware that some provinces are in fact clawing that money back from some of our most at risk and marginalized families on social assistance. Examples from Classical Literature He looked at the bow-windows, the cheap picturesque gables, the terracotta dragons clawing a dirty sky. Or at least, if there is any gouging and clawing to be done, you are not personally involved in it. He gave me a boost against the smooth wall of the stope, and my clawing fingers caught on the edge of a sharp shelf of stone. Michael, on the smooth roof of the cabin, slithered down the steep slope to starboard and disappeared, clawing and snarling, into the runway. Then they trooped aft, clawing their way along the slushy decks. The leader of the greenish men paused in mid-leap, clawing at his stomach. She broke away, clawing his face, screaming her maniacal cry. It fell, clawing and tearing, to roll helplessly down the slope. It was while peeking into a cage of a pet shop that the former paralegal from the Bay Area spotted a tiny emaciated chameleon clawing at its habitat. The others, screaming and clawing, were thrust over the precipice, and went hurtling down, as their prisoners had of old, on to the sharp bamboos six hundred feet below. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of clawing? Words that rhyme with clawing What is the plural of clawing? What is the adverb for clawing? What is the adjective for clawing? What is the noun for clawing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words clawhammer clawed claw back clawback Claw claw clawless clawlike claws claxon Claxton clay 7-letter Words Starting With c cl cla claw clawi clawin