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How to use clings in a sentence

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Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside.
The Army clings to the belief that all active units should be ready to deploy at any time.
Although the defender hasn't played for them for three years, he still clings to the hope that he might yet make it to the World Cup finals.
He claimed that I must be the last person in the legal academy who clings to this anachronistic view.
There is a knack to dealing with a mango, which contains a long, thin stone to which the flesh clings for dear life.
My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour.
He still clings stubbornly to his belief in the omnipotence of science and the grandeur of human ambition.
In short, the minnow's biological proficiency does little to foster its survival in the modified world to which this fish desperately clings.
But it is too pat, and though he may joke about such transparent, easily reduced motivations, he clings too strongly to them.
It clings tenuously to the stony mountainside in a thin line of hairpins before dropping out of sight.
One clings onto a pair of lofty branches with his arms spread so that the large leaves resemble the wings of a botanic angel.
Funny how one of the most urbanised societies on earth clings to its foundation myths.
Like all other Indian restaurants I've been to, its interior decor clings closely to Indian culture.
The unseeded Argentine overhits his return to give his opponent game point and Nalbandian clings on to take it into a breaker.
Today, he clings to memories and a photograph of his dad donning his green flight suit.
She looks broken, like she needs to be put back together, and she clings to the boy next to her.
It clings to the retina, the ciliary epithelium, and the margin of the optic nerve.
The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
Don't think of how tightly Lee clings to his power, that is not the real worry.
Hannah wails as she throws herself on the floor and clings to her mother's legs in protest.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For a hundred feet or so the ascent was practicable only by means of bosses of the club moss that clings to the rock.
Then the ka that clings to it eternally awoke at my touch and knew me, or so I suppose.
It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.
This clumsiness clings even to the photographs of public men, as they are snapshotted at public meetings.
Oddly enough, this last cockney epigram clings to my memory.
A woman clings to slight acquaintances when she lives so much alone as I do.
Ground fog clings to the jungle floor and in the semidarkness your eyes strain to detect any movement.
It is soaked and heavy, and it flops about, and tumbles down on you, and clings round your head and makes you mad.
The aphis clings to the ends of young shoots, and sucks out their sap.
The death of that poor fellow, churr, clings to him, say what one may.
But despite them a sort of romance clings to that Nueces outlaw.
The quicksilver clings to the gold and forms an amalgam with it.
I don't deny that she clings to the hope of hastening her marriage, and to the hope of rescuing her sister from a life of dependence.
Athanase clung to his mother with the ardor of a dying man who clings to life.
This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me.
He seemed to cling to it as a drowning sailor clings to a life buoy.
The gas clings to the earth in a layer about half a metre thick.
It clings to its fixed ideas with the same tenacity as does the paranoiac.
As the polypus resembles in colour the rock to which it clings.
But little Pauline clings to her knees in an agony of terror.
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