Clasp can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
||
| clasp - hold firmly and tightly | ||
| clasp - grasp firmly; "The child clasped my hands" | ||
| clasp - fasten with a buckle or buckles | ||
| clasp - fasten with or as if with a brooch | ||
Noun |
||
| clasp - the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing" | ||
| clasp - a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together |
| # | Sentence | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | noun | He released his clasp on my arm. | |
| 2. | noun | This clasp won't fasten. | |
| 3. | noun | He gave my hand a firm clasp. | |
| 4. | noun | She fastened the clasp of her necklace. | |
| 5. | noun | He held her hand in a firm clasp. | |
| 6. | noun | The clasp on this necklace is broken. | |
| 7. | verb | "Ah, mother mine!" he chides her, as she flies, / "art thou, then, also cruel? Wherefore cheat / thy son so oft with images and lies? / Why may I not clasp hands, and talk without disguise?" | |
| 8. | verb | At once, 'twixt joy and terror rent in twain, / amazed, AEneas and Achates stand, / and long to greet old friends and clasp a comrade's hand. / Yet wildering wonder at so strange a scene / still holds them mute, while anxious thoughts divide / their doubtful minds. | |
| 9. | verb | Thrice round the neck with longing I essayed / to clasp the phantom in a wild delight; / thrice, vainly clasped, the visionary shade / mocked me embracing, and was lost to sight, / swift as a winged wind or slumber of the night. | |
| 10. | verb | I see another but a tinier Troy, / a seeming Pergama recalls the great. / A dried-up Xanthus I salute with joy, / and clasp the portals of a Scaean gate. | |
| 11. | verb | To clasp in friendship the hand of the enemy of his house, to entertain him under his roof, to exchange with him the courtesies and the kindness of domestic familiarity, was a degradation which his proud spirit could not be bent to without a struggle. |
| Sentence | |
|---|---|
| noun | |
| He released his clasp on my arm. |
|
| This clasp won't fasten. | |
| He gave my hand a firm clasp. | |
| She fastened the clasp of her necklace. | |
| He held her hand in a firm clasp. | |
| The clasp on this necklace is broken. | |
| verb | |
| "Ah, mother mine!" he chides her, as she flies, / "art thou, then, also cruel? Wherefore cheat / thy son so oft with images and lies? / Why may I not clasp hands, and talk without disguise?" | |
| At once, 'twixt joy and terror rent in twain, / amazed, AEneas and Achates stand, / and long to greet old friends and clasp a comrade's hand. / Yet wildering wonder at so strange a scene / still holds them mute, while anxious thoughts divide / their doubtful minds. | |
| Thrice round the neck with longing I essayed / to clasp the phantom in a wild delight; / thrice, vainly clasped, the visionary shade / mocked me embracing, and was lost to sight, / swift as a winged wind or slumber of the night. | |
| I see another but a tinier Troy, / a seeming Pergama recalls the great. / A dried-up Xanthus I salute with joy, / and clasp the portals of a Scaean gate. | |
| To clasp in friendship the hand of the enemy of his house, to entertain him under his roof, to exchange with him the courtesies and the kindness of domestic familiarity, was a degradation which his proud spirit could not be bent to without a struggle. | |