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How to use clung in a sentence

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I clung to a ringbolt for some time, but eventually dropped on to the deck, and a huge wave washed me away.
The floor hadn't been cleaned in years and muddy footprints clung to the lino.
Rags clung to a frail and bony body, one that did not look like it'd had any nourishment for quite some time.
Both boys were uninjured after they clung onto the wall and avoided falling.
I smelt the familiar cigarette odour as it attacked my nostrils, and clung on tighter.
In so far as they still clung to socialist phraseology, it was simply to give their nationalist programme a more acceptable cover.
He dragged open the door with great effort, then clung to its edge with one clenched hand, his body slumped soddenly to one side.
Then my mother took a soup spoon, loosened the mass of cream-colored seeds that clung to the cavity and scooped them into the garbage pail.
The dress was held up by thin spaghetti straps and the first layer clung to my body, while the top layer flowed elegantly as I moved.
She clung to every word, speechless, not daring to breathe until it was over.
So he clung on to his draughty vicarage in East Anglia as a man might to a small raft in stormy seas.
Moss clung to the rocks and ivy climbed tirelessly, spiralling around the trees.
In recent years, he has clung to power as the country's economy spiraled downward and political opposition to his government has grown.
What may seem paradoxical to some today is that theologically, Spurgeon tenaciously clung to traditional Calvinism.
As if I was somehow oblivious to the fact that he had to pick and dig and drill and scrape away at my tooth as it valiantly clung to my gums.
A thick wet mop of dark hair clung to his head, a look of concern fixed onto his handsome face, as he seemed to carefully observe her.
Seeing no real hope in any previous upgrades I clung to the software until its recent demise into obsoletism.
Once outside he noticed how stickily the air clung to him, and for the first time noted how badly he must have been sweating back there.
Pleas for caution and restraint from the minority who still clung to dwindling hopes of agreement were drowned with jeers and catcalls.
A strangled laugh escaped her throat as she clung to him tighter, squeezing her eyes shut.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A fly lit on the pane and the pseudoscorpion caught its legs and clung while the fly crawled about.
The dusty mornings were dry and crackly, the sullen summer air clung within the house at night.
Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges.
It clung together, the gregariousness of humanity not yet winnowed out by degeneration.
It seemed to her that life clung about her like a strong, dark web, meshing every natural movement of her heart.
And from the edge of the rim where he clung to its hairnet, all directions were down.
Maggie, whose face was as white now as it had been crimson, clung to him, hampering him.
How the shop assistant clung to his reason is a mystery which has yet to be solved.
An arm, on which the deathy skin clung to the bones, dragged rather than supported a languid infant.
He clung to a hope that bream Mortimer at least would receive him fittingly.
Somehow the sobriquet had clung to him even after his return to the Panhandle.
The dampness of the grave-yard clung to me, and the night dews were beginning to fall.
Her wet suit of light blue and green silk clung closely to her, showing the lines of her justly proportioned body.
They had wintered it and springed it, and clung to it through bright days and dark.
Her scarlet bathing cap flamed against the ash blue sky and her wet suit clung to her slender form like a sheath of black lacquer.
She grasped a stanchion and clung there, staring at him with a wild, white face.
Since then they had clung desperately to this ridge, which dominates the valley of the Aisne and the ailette Valley.
The remainder of the crew clung to ring-bolts or stanchions, or whatever they could grasp.
They felt no need of food or water, but clung together in a dimensionless universe, held up by love.
He clung alike to Evelyn and to Aten as the air-pilot fought to clear a way.
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