I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bear claw
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sharp
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The pain burrowed through Léonie, tore at her with sharp claws .
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We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws .
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Kittens sometimes take badly to this over-zealous embrace and strike out with their sharp claws .
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As for Ewan, he will probably be vastly amused until those sharp claws get in the way.
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Glowing eyes opened. Sharp small claws flexed.
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And I belong to the Kakinishisha clan, the sharp claws .
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They were a sub-order with sharp claws and a prominent second toe looking like a huge sickle.
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She would always be bad-tempered, liable to peck out an eye or lash out dangerously with those sharp claws .
■ NOUN
bear
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I am wearing my bear claws and flying into the upper regions with the thunderbirds.
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Before I left, Gary gave me a necklace of bear claws .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bellowing, the thing was trying to reach over the stair-rail with its other encrusted, decomposing claw .
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Blackberry almost drove Pipkin on to it with his claws.
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Dianne Wiest has her moments, though, as a fluffy gangster's moll with claws of steel.
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His arms are wrapped in a white winding cloth, and the claws of a dead chicken hang near his head.
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They let the claw go each year and it grows back as big as ever.
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This is because the claws have so many important functions in the life of a cat.
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Usually the Daemon in that card snarled with bared fangs and reached out with wicked claws.
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We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
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The hands are clawed , deformed, seemingly clutching madly or reaching out in desperation.
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Their language had been something dreadful, and hands had reached to claw at garments.
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The hand reeked of garlic-she clawed at it, her muffled shouts oozing out between the fingers.
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Eyes bulging, he collapsed, hands feebly clawing at his mouth.
way
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The vine clawed its way up the wall at the end.
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She was there as her son clawed his way up from the post-coma cognitive level of a 2-year-old.
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This was the early-eighties and Britain was clawing its way out of recession on the back of a demand-led boom.
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You have to really work and claw your way up there.
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There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position.
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She was still clawing her way out of her first marriage, not thinking about the next, as I was.
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In the next seven years, Assad clawed his way up the ladder until he emerged as sole leader in 1970.
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He will probe unceasingly for loopholes by which to claw his way back to his prewar stature.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Marian's two-year-old toddler was clawing at her skirt.
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Their dog clawed all the paint off the doors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benedettini clawed the ball out with his right hand, but a linesman raised his flag to indicate a goal.
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Forgetting the pain clawing at her maltreated ankle, Luce stared unbelievingly at a head and shoulders portrait of herself.
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She was there as her son clawed his way up from the post-coma cognitive level of a 2-year-old.
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Something in his face fought, clawed, was smothered.
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The cat shifted about on his lap, clawed at the woolen nubs of his trousers.
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You have to really work and claw your way up there.