"I grew up with Ali," he said through clenched teeth.
I remember how Baba's hands clenched around the steering wheel.
Eight years old, pale and skinny, the woman in the green coat who would become his wife had clenched her small fingers around the pen and practiced cursive writing alone in her room, hour after hour, until she wrote with the exquisite fluidity of running water.
He clenched his fists tightly and shook them ferociously at Miss Martha.
" Sometimes, when such thoughts crossed his mind, the fiery nature rose within him, and he beat the wall with his clenched fists.
The ice glittered, the snow crackled, the skaters skimmed over the polished surface of the lakes; ravens and crows formed a pleasing contrast to the white ground, and not a breath of wind stirred, and in the still air old Winter clenched his fists, and the ice lay fathoms deep between the lands.
" Ugly monkeys sat high in the branches and clenched their teeth.
