Clawed Sentence Examples

He clawed at the ground and began to weep.

She crawled and clawed her way to Dusty, looking wildly for her brother.

She gagged and clawed at his hands, struggling to take a breath.

The unearthly shrill of the telephone shattered the scene, once, twice, three times before Dean clawed at the instrument and grumbled something.

Giddon exclaimed sharply and clawed a spider web from his face.

She clawed her way into a sweatshirt as she hurried to the door.

The tourists were left below and Dean was alone save the sounds of nature on the rocky rutted path as his Jeep's tires clawed upward.

By the time she clawed her way over the edge, she was soaked with sweat and panting, her muscles burning from effort.

She picked her way through the first few steps, startled when he launched himself at a tree, clawed his way up, and bypassed the muddy section by leaping to the next tree.

Two of the climbers clawed them apart, pulling Dean from him, just as Cynthia reached the front door, screaming for him to stop.

Fourth and Oak were just as desolate as Ninth and Locust, but as soon as Dean stopped the car, a disheveled figure jumped from the darkness and clawed at the passenger door until Dean reached over and opened it.

Dean clawed out a hand and answered it.

She released the bush and clawed at the ground as she slid over the cliff.

She screamed and frantically clawed the slender green snake from her arm.

In the fore feet the three inner toes have large claws, while the two outer ones are rudimentary and clawless; in the hind-limbs the first toe is wanting, as in Megatherium, but the second and third are clawed.

But the limbs show with regard to development great variation, and an uninterrupted transition from the most perfect condition of two pairs with five separate clawed toes to their total disappearance; yet even limbless lizards retain bony vestiges beneath the skin.

Rodents may be characterized as terrestrial, or in some cases arboreal or aquatic, placental mammals of small or medium size, with a milk and a permanent series of teeth, plantigrade or partially plantigrade, and generally five-toed, clawed (rarely nailed or semi hoofed) feet, clavicles or collar-bones (occasionally imperfect or rudimentary), no canine teeth, and a single pair of lower incisors, opposed by only one similar and functional pair in the upper jaw.

The clawed slender fingers did not make Archaeopteryx any more quadrupedal or bat-like in its habits than is a kestrel hawk, with its equally large, or even larger thumb-claw.

In both groups, for instance, the lower part of the hind-leg is formed by a long, slender cannon-bone, or metatarsus, terminating inferiorly in triple condyles for the three long and sharply clawed toes, the resemblance being increased by the fact that in both cases the small bone of the leg (fibula) is fused with the large one (tibia).

If, however, the so-called Proglires of the lower Eocene are really ancestral rodents, the order is brought into comparatively close connexion with the early generalized types of clawed, or unguiculate mammals.

The woman jerked beneath him and clawed at the Black God draining her blood.

These larger, more aggressive crayfish easily out-compete the white clawed crayfish, which will be moved to a water course in North Somerset.

Xenopus laevis - scientific name for the African clawed frog, one of the model organisms used to study vertebrate development.

Darkhawk smashed the now brittle bone golem to shards with his clawed fists and stepped toward the nagpa.

The goalbound header by the leading scorer at the World Cup was brilliantly clawed away by Given.

We also have a newly built reptile house and now have various mammals on display, including meerkats and asian short clawed otters.

We were also lucky enough to see both the small clawed and Eurasian otter.

This was clawed back by Durbach in a tough close tetchy second game.

Against all odds, Manx Gaelic has clawed itself back from the verge of extinction over the past thirty years.

Typically the term "cat gym" translates to a scratching post add-on or even just a small hanging rope that can be clawed freely.

According to Mrs. Gregg, a huge, wolf-like creature clawed at the screen to her bedroom one night in 1958 when her husband was away on a business trip.

Wormshaped, without limbs, except Chirotes which has short, clawed forelimbs.