Clinch in a sentence as a noun

In boxing, as soon as the fighters clinch, the ref breaks up the fighters.

In pro boxing refs are very lenient about clinch tactics.

A breakthrough discovery, at use at the bench in less then a decade, and an easy clinch for the Nobel Prize.

It really is an awesome view though, we stopped by on our last Chicago visit and you can't really help but clinch up a bit.

> A quick skim of the bug list is enough to make any truly-fastidious engineer's sphincter clinch.

I think what really will clinch this is that once Android tablets come out in force, there will be so many options the iPad will be lost in the noise.

Clinch in a sentence as a verb

The working of these exercises will help clinch his grasp of the formula and will assure his ability to use the formula.

The double clinch is that we're all paying a lot of money to keep this program going that just slows us down during our travels with out actually increasing security in any meaningful way. It's just a secret form of welfare as far as I'm compared.

I'd say it's more akin to gathering information or evidence without a warrant in order to guarantee that a warrant will find the evidence necessary to clinch a conviction from the case.

"Failing some observational bias, the suggestive correlation with terrestrial time standards seems to nearly clinch the case for human association of these peculiar phenomena.

Since you were not able to clinch the project - which I believe is simply bad salesmanship, like in my case earlier - your "I told you so" rant is based on a massive leap of faith that you or any "US based" programmers could have finished the project on time, which I am simply have no reason to buy.

Clinch definitions

noun

(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily

noun

a small slip noose made with seizing

See also: clench

noun

the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet

noun

a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

See also: clamp

noun

a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"

See also: squeeze

verb

secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts; "The girder was clinched into the wall"

verb

hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

verb

hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"

See also: clench

verb

embrace amorously

verb

flatten the ends (of nails and rivets); "the nails were clinched"

verb

settle conclusively; "clinch a deal"