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fist - use in sentences
Converse of object
- clench: His fists clenched behind the laptop he had erected on his knee in sheer anger.
- shake: There's more great photos of the gig here than you could shake a fist at.
- glove: All strikes are allowed in the ring, unlike western boxing, which prohibits all but strikes with gloved fists.
- mail: He still has the velvet glove on the mailed fist.
- raise: But, unlike the usual thing, he did not hide the face: he raised the fist and he shouted slogans.
- fly: Flying fists mar a set that recaptures the potency of these punk legends.
Preposition: on
- table: The General leaned one fist on the table next to him.
Adjective modifier
- closed: Once a child is given permission to approach a dog, she should present her closed fist for the dog to sniff.
- tight: Hands were clenched into tight fists to conserve warmth.
- decent: Now, to his credit, Doug makes a pretty decent fist of justifying his presence as the driving force of his own novel.
- bare: Firstly rather than your bare fists, you have a weapon, or pair of weapons, at your disposal.
- hidden: War, peace and anti-capitalism THE HIDDEN hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist.
- left: Lane raises his left fist, then his right.
Modifies a noun
- salute: As ever we gave the clenched fist salute in response and fight on.
- fight: Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down.
Modifying Another Word
- tight: But i can't comment on the product quality, i ' m too tight fisted to buy the set!
Noun used with modifier
- iron: Moreover, key moments reveal the iron fist beneath the velvet glove.
Preposition: in
- glove: This is the iron fist in the velvet glove of CONI's rhetoric of incorporation and inclusiveness.
- air: We got 11 possibly 12 fist in the air tracks.
Preposition: of
- fury: But there's more to Hong Kong filmmaking than roundhouses and fists of fury.
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