clawlike

• “Something clawlike was reaching down at him, talonless but grasping.”

  Fictionaut: Maybe Maybe

• “The clawlike, heavily veined hand looks like a sea creature.”

  Amy | clusterflock

• “I blinked and caught a glimpse of a brown gnarled hand with black clawlike fingernails curling around my door.”

  Simon & Schuster: Master of Mirrors

• “He clutched a rolled-up piece of parchment with tiny hands studded with black clawlike nails.”

  Simon & Schuster: Master of Mirrors

• “Use a clawlike movement, rather than a flat hand," Cunningham says, "and if your hair's long, don't apply the shampoo directly to the ends – lift the length of the hair and squeeze the crown so that the shampoo flows down to it.”

  The Guardian: Three-minute fix ... hair-washing

• “To the east is the Mississippi and its long, clawlike delta that seems to point to the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank.”

  The Washington Post: Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana

• “Soliman, the sultan, is in cahoots with sinister aliens who slink across the stage, shrouded like mummies, with black faceplates and, in one case, clawlike appendages used as an extra set of legs.”

  The Washington Post: Anne Midgette revisits Wolf Trap's staging of Mozart's 'Zaide'

• “The bottle slipped out of his clawlike hands and rolled away on the floor to where he could not reach it.”

  The Washington Post: Fearless John Callahan pushed boundaries of taste and humor with his art

• “They grasped with clawlike hands as they moved, reaching…reaching…”

  Simon & Schuster: WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE

• “A faint wisp of oily black smoke wafted upward from the joined hands, and Brynna noticed that the Hispanic woman was the one with the clawlike fingernails.”

  Simon & Schuster: Highborn

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