Clasp has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | This clasp won't fasten. | |
| 2. | He gave my hand a firm clasp. | |
| 3. | She fastened the clasp of her necklace. | |
| 4. | He held her hand in a firm clasp. | |
| 5. | The clasp on this necklace is broken. | |
| 6. | "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?" | |
| 7. | 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. | |
| 8. | 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. | |
| 9. | 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. | |
| 10. | 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. |