Claw used in a sentence

Claw in a sentence as a noun

What's happening in that case is not simply that publishers are trying to claw back rights from US consumers.

Pincus is attempting to make it sound as if he wants to claw back equity from employees who don't do their jobs.

Wherever and whenever the human race manages to claw its way out of poverty, we immediately stop having so many kids.

Perhaps a zero-sum mentality also helps to provide the motivation to claw your way relentlessly to the top of the pile in the first place.

Claw in a sentence as a verb

Let me explain: I've worked hard, for years, to claw my way from poverty -- actual homelessness, not enough money for food, all that good stuff -- up to lower-middle-class, and I'm working hard to at least stay there.

There is nothing "unfair" about a star performer essentially writing their own rules, and it is one of the great sadnesses of this profession that there are so many lobsters desperately trying to claw their peers down to the bottom of the pot.

And all of this "nature red in tooth and claw" **** - "most human beings through the millennia have existed in a naturally brutal, unchanging, and impoverished state" - who is he to spit on thousands of generations of living, breathing people, and say their lives were ****?