adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
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Nigel of the clammy hands and Peter of the bow legs and disappearing chin?
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They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As soon as the interview began, I felt my hands go clammy .
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His hands were clammy .
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His whole body was clammy with sweat as a result of the malaria.
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We were left waiting in our clammy clothes for over an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the knowledge was dampening my shirt with the clammy sweat of anxiety.
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For the next three days the raft lay in a dense, clammy shroud.
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He stood there in his clammy shoes for an hour and a half.
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It mildewed towels, made sleeping bags clammy , soaked the pressed bamboo of the cockpit floor so it was unpleasantly slimy.
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My forehead, clammy and cold, stuck to my fingers like blood.
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Secrets, she thought, feeling a cold, clammy fear crawling down her neck.
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The scorching, clammy heat of a summer in New York had been a total physical shock.
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When she tried to be cheerful she ended up flustered and red-faced, clammy all over.