CLING in a Sentence
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94 example sentences for CLING, such as:
1. He is of a clinging sort.
2. I still cling to the hope that he's alive.
3. Boys cling to the rope to keep from falling.
4. Some of the hairpin bends had Ruth clinging to her seat.
5. His hands felt so warm and strong, so comforting to cling to.
2. I still cling to the hope that he's alive.
3. Boys cling to the rope to keep from falling.
4. Some of the hairpin bends had Ruth clinging to her seat.
5. His hands felt so warm and strong, so comforting to cling to.
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Meanings and Examples of CLING
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cling
n. fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1 An ageless dignity, a timeless gallantry still clung about them and would cling until they died but they would carry undying bitterness to their graves, a bitterness too deep for words.
2 His hands felt so warm and strong, so comforting to cling to.
3 These, for the moment, took the unpleasant form of continuing to cling to her hosts after their return from Alaska.
4 How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.
5 Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.
6 An honest Delaware now, being fairly vanquished, would have lain still, and been knocked on the head, but these knavish Maquas cling to life like so many cats-o'-the-mountain.
7 They are in our homes; they are the associates of our children, and they form their minds faster than we can; for they are a race that children always will cling to and assimilate with.
8 From these rocks that I had the good luck to cling to while our captain and the rest of the crew were all lost.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
9 The aperture was already sufficiently large for him to enter, but by waiting, he could still cling to hope, and retard the certainty of deception.
10 I was taken to Versailles; for three months I struggled with death; at last, as I seemed to cling to life, I was ordered to the South.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
11 And without listening to Villefort he arose, and followed Valentine, who was running down-stairs with the joy of a shipwrecked mariner who finds a rock to cling to.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
12 Half a score of steps still cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident.
13 Like all children, who resemble young shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; she had not succeeded.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
14 The moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot.
15 They cling to the seats, to the rumble, on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts.
Example Sentence:
1 Boys cling to the rope to keep from falling.
2 Through it all, he tries to cling to a trembling grip on reality, as love and pain coalesce into a shocking.
3 You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
4 I still cling to the hope that he's alive.
5 The climbers were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above the sea.
6 We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
7 Some of the hairpin bends had Ruth clinging to her seat.
8 He is of a clinging sort.
9 The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
10 "That's how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron."