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• The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.From the entry chip
• Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.From the entry devitalize
• The government aims to clamp down on underage drinking.From the entry clamp down on
• Shame, a word I didn't know at five, had clamped my mouth shut.2020, Christie Tate, Group, page 44. From the entry butt worm
• This is not the first time a city in China has clamped down on Christmas merriment.2018 December 19, Tiffany May, “Chinese City Bans Christmas Displays Amid Religious Crackdown”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Christmas
• The other lunged to the side of the second and clamped one clawed hand around its muzzle.2017 April, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 10, in Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent, New…. From the entry ruff
• It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail.2014, Jeff Bredenberg, The Dream Vessel. From the entry backboard
• Up to 32 clamping robots and six welding robots can be installed in one box.2012, Koichi Shimokawa, Ulrich Jürgens, Takahiro Fujimoto, Transforming Automobile Assembly, →ISBN. From the entry respot
• And clamped Between the Cartwheels of the stroopwafel, I was the syrup, holding them together, and apart.2012, Lawrence Winkler, “Stroopwafel”, in Between the Cartwheels, [S.l.]: Lawrence Winkler, →ISBN. From the entry stroopwafel
• Struggling into a sitting position, I clamped both hands over my shredded thigh.2011, Elisa Paige, Killing Time. From the entry helluvalot
• The frusta are clamped at their roots and free at their ends.2008, R. Benjamin Davis, Techniques to Assess Acoustic-structure Interaction in Liquid Rocket Engines, page 122. From the entry frustum
• The form ties are ¾-inch pipe clamps, spaced 6 to 10 feet apart in the horizontal direction.2007, David Easton, The Rammed Earth House, page 121. From the entry waler
• "First thing was, he got the squirts." "The squirts?" Wayne clamped his fingers around his nose.2007 July 10, Steve Yarbrough, “Section 40”, in The End of California, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry the squirts
• He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.1995, Gordon D. Shirreffs, The Ghost Dancers, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry facelock
• Vise-like clamping action of lid remover jaws assures reliable lid removal every time.1983, Processed Prepared Food - Volume 152, page 87. From the entry delid
• Calls to unity are almost always issued when one party wants to clamp off debate.1980 April 5, Mary Burns, “Aggrieved Surprise”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry clamp off
• At the last board meeting, trustee Edmund Carpenter moved to clamp down on private trades.1974 March 31, Leah Gordon, “Trading a Museum's Treasure—a Very Hazardous Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry deaccession
• When disconnecting or replacing clamp bolts, use only the correct size open-end wrench.1972 May, Wayne Heyman, “How It Works: The Marine Battery”, in MotorBoating, volume 129, number 5, page 161. From the entry nuthead
• Accidental overvoltage or overrange protection is provided by fast recovery diodes and zener clamps.1972, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology Utilization Division, NASA Tech Brief - Issues 10600-10756…. From the entry overrange
• An automatic unclipper may be used to lift the clamping lever of Smallman clips.1959, John Sinclair, Winding and Transport in Mines, page 335. From the entry unclipper
• Clamp this loop in a strong vise and twist the two ends evenly into one piece.1937 October, R. H. Jenkins, “Five attractive new designs you can work out from inexpensive materials”, in Popular Science, volume 131…. From the entry vise
• Whatever her emotion was, she clamped it down as an Indian girl would have done.1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg. From the entry half an eye
• Three rolled sheets are clamped together and to a form and are then tack welded into place.1923 June, “Fabricating Storage Tanks by Oxy-Acetylene Welding”, in Acetylene Journal. From the entry tack weld
• For the same reason too, metal vice clamps are used instead of blocks of wood.1909, Joseph G. Horner, editor, Henley's Encyclopædia of Practical Engineering and Allied Trades, volume X, New York, New York: Norman W.…. From the entry heavy duty
• Washers to provide a clamping force to keep the parking brakes on were also missing, rendering them "completely inoperative".2024 February 7, Greg Morse, “Tebay tragedy and track safety”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 41. From the entry inoperative
• Valentina clamped the Napoleon brandy bottle between her thighs amongst the floral skirt, and with a cloop the cork popped out.2017, Barbara Kastelin, “April 1967”, in When Snow Fell, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry cloop
• A drill punch stood poised, a big thing shaped like a C clamp, with a table and a velocitized mouth.2014, John Keeble, Yellowfish: A Novel, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry velocitize
• It could be a loose clamp on the car, but not sure where i need to be belooking.2012, leak somewhere - PT Cruiser Forum. From the entry belook
• Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp.2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light. From the entry barn door
• My hands reached behind me for support, but the horse-hung mystery man had me, his arms clamped around my chest.2011, Jonathan Asche, Kept Men, page 236. From the entry horse-hung
• In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV. From the entry milling machine
• The alcohol clamp was developed to allow researchers to maintain a target BrAC in study participants despite these factors.2006, Vijay A Ramchandani, Sean O’Connor, “Studying alcohol elimination using the alcohol clamp method”, in Alcohol Res Health, volume 29…. From the entry alcohol clamp
• Dove-tail clamps with an embolon bind the treasury's blocks; similar clamps without an embolon bind the ashlars of the stereobate.2000, Elena C. Partida, The Treasuries at Delphi [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature, Pocket-book; 160], Jonsered…. From the entry embolon
• We have shown that the extracellular patch clamp can be reliably used to detect extremely small currents flowing through biological membranes.1978 July, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, Joe Henry Steinbach, “The Extracellular Patch Clamp: A Method for Resolving Currents through…. From the entry patch clamp
• He had the two veneers clamped together and was cutting the inlay pattern with the finest of fretsaws.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77. From the entry fretsaw
• The work pieces are held in clamps or vises, attached to or carried upon the terminals of the single-turn secondary circuit.1904 June, Elihu Thomson, “Electric Welding Development”, in Cassier’s Magazine: Engineering Illustrated, volume XXVI, number 2, New York…. From the entry workpiece
• Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17…. From the entry hamstring
• This paper studies the snap-through of a pinned-clamped elastica when the support of the clamped end can be moved arbitrarily in plane.2020 December, Qiang Wang, Hai-Lin Zou, Zi-Chen Deng, “Snap-through of a pinned-clamped elastica with arbitrarily movable support at the…. From the entry elastica
• I will just clamp a quick clamp or an F clamp to whatever I'm working on and rest my hand on it.2018, Shawn McDonald, Everything you NEED to Know About TIG Welding. From the entry F clamp

Meaning of clamp

1. noun A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
2. noun An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
3. noun A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

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Questions about clamp in a sentence

How do you use clamp in a sentence?

Clamp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.”

What is a short sentence with clamp?

“The government aims to clamp down on underage drinking.”

What does clamp mean?

Clamp means a brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.