Or just clench your jaw and hang on with white knuckles in terrified silence.

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In this simple mnemonic example, the clench phase corresponds to convergence and the release to divergence.

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This action was to clench either their right or their left hand into a fist.

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But note: though the answer always comes in the release phase, it relies on the clench phase.

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The poetry, written by Maya Angelou, clumps along with a confessional earnestness that makes you clench your fists and try not to laugh.

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By contrast, people who are defensive or angry may protectively fold their arms across their chest, clench their hands into a fist or tightly grip their arm or wrist.

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Both techniques were able to see the brain acting to clench a volunteer's fist in his dream in exactly the way that it does when ordering fist-clenching in reality.

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Her hands may clench before her jaw does.

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Clench the sides of your seat once again.

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Our guts clench, chest tightens, shoulders raise.

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The blacksmith felt his organs clench as the first of the dogs, the bravely stupid, half-blind shepherd, reached the tiger and immediately went end over end as the big cat lashed at and then pinned him with all its enormous weight.

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