serrant

Vous avez résisté pendant neuf ans, en serrant les dents.

You resisted for nine years, gritting your teeth.

— Aucun autre choix (2025)

Elle pleurait en serrant les vêtements de sa maman contre elle.

She was crying as she clutched her mother's clothes to her.

— A Taxi Driver (2017)

Et subitement, pris de rage, lui serrant la gorge, il tenta de le renverser.

And suddenly, overcome with rage, he grabbed him by the throat and tried to knock him over.

En le serrant entre deux ongles, il a écrit un caractère de plus.

Pinching it between two fingernails, he wrote one more character.

— Pas un de moins (1999)