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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Sharon Lake was last dredged from 1986 to 1988.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
19 Mar. 2026
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The company also dredged the Batiquitos Lagoon at the border of Carlsbad and Encinitas in the winter of 2023 to maintain a restoration completed there in the mid-1990s.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Medical experts say if a rattlesnake bites, keep the area still, at or below heart level, do not apply ice, do not cut the wound, and do not suck out the venom – and seek help immediately.—
Jasmine Viel,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Aztecs were within nine points late in the first half against Michigan and had a 3 rattle out that would have cut it to six before getting their doors blown off 94-54, their most lopsided defeat of the 21st century.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Scientists from China and then the UK excavated approximately 700 fossils during multiple visits between 2022 and 2025.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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Further clearing continued throughout the 19th century, and the statue was fully excavated — exposing its paws and surrounding temple — by Émile Baraize between 1925 and 1936.—
Ryan Brennan
April 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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Others chafed at pre-empting local rules.—
Mark Dee
March 28,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2026
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Those Cubs teams were full of veterans who often chafed at Lou Piniella’s old-school managing ways but won anyway, at least until the postseason.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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In 1998, the small Jesuit school in Spokane was so deep in a fiscal crisis as enrollment dwindled, some administrators fretted if the school could stay open.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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For the better part of the past year, Wall Street analysts and tech-industry observers have fretted publicly about an AI bubble.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Bundle is also galled by Lady Coote’s refusal to mention at the inquest that the fatal sleeping draft was from a bottle she’d given to her sleepless maid, Emily.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
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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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Counting every hour, every day until— Somewhere beyond the bar, a dog barked.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Apr. 2026
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Then Growler, a black labrador, barked.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Clawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clawed. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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