Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clawed
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025 -
Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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In the film, Emma Stone's Bella Baxter is dredged from the river after dying by suicide, then reanimated by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), possessing the body of a woman and the brain of a baby.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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Sand dredged from the harbor entrance is used to replenish Oceanside beaches, mostly north of Tyson Street and the municipal pier.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025
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Carolina cut the lead 17-14 at halftime after a 1-yard touchdown run by Hubbard and a 16-yard scramble by Young, the second-longest TD run of his career.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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This same staff cut him to make room for a waiver-wire claim before the start of the 2024 season.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Jan. 2026
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Among them, a hominin femur that was excavated from the cave bears teeth marks.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
7 Jan. 2026
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The team found multiple 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads excavated from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
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Young people have chafed under conservative rule and the stifling of political freedoms.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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The state’s changes to the rates chafed some local districts’ officials, including fire districts that fretted about affording equipment and firefighters as risks from wildfires loomed large year-round.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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The state’s changes to the rates chafed some local districts’ officials, including fire districts that fretted about affording equipment and firefighters as risks from wildfires loomed large year-round.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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Recent college grads in particular felt the pinch, and economic policymakers fretted about slowing labor growth.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2025
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From Warriors coach Steve Kerr, to future Hall of Famers Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green, to 25-year-old relative newcomers Quinten Post and Trayce Jackson-Davis, the team’s lack of competitive fire galled the Warriors.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Her words so galled many on the left, each column became a source of knee-jerk opposition online.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Cackles, even, as the obnoxiously loud guy sitting behind me barked throughout the show.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
7 Jan. 2026
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Singleton gestured rapidly and barked at his teammates after the play.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Clawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clawed. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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