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Sentence Examples 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. She looks broken, like she needs to be put back together, and she clings to the boy next to her. Don't think of how tightly Lee clings to his power, that is not the real worry. 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. 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. The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river. It clings to the retina, the ciliary epithelium, and the margin of the optic nerve. Similarly, Blake clings to the notion that no player should enter the draft unless he is a four-year college senior. This lone dustbin clings to the side of a street lamp in front of the Deccan Herald office on the middle of the road. Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck. Hannah wails as she throws herself on the floor and clings to her mother's legs in protest. There is a knack to dealing with a mango, which contains a long, thin stone to which the flesh clings for dear life. If it doesn't, remove by hand, then rub off any yellow coral that clings to the meat. Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside. At 30m and slightly deeper, a forest of gorgonians and black corals clings to the slope. The trail has long gone cold, but Ames's mother, Shanika, still clings to the hope that he is still alive. The wounded digger clings to the belt of the man in front with his sound hand, while his other cobber gets underneath and pushes him up. Show More Sentences My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour. The Army clings to the belief that all active units should be ready to deploy at any time. Hanson herself, meanwhile, clings to a tight-lipped refusal to comment on her private life. In the face of modernity, there's a thrill in watching an ornery cuss who clings to the old ways. He still clings stubbornly to his belief in the omnipotence of science and the grandeur of human ambition. He likes the fact that although the club has a cosmopolitan feel it still clings to old values. 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. Like all other Indian restaurants I've been to, its interior decor clings closely to Indian culture. He is like a grandfather to us, the kind who seems like he should have died a while ago and yet stubbornly clings to life. The starter motor spun the crankshaft through a few revolutions, easily resisting the cold, gluey oil that clings to the bearings and cylinder walls. Peterhead clings to its harbour like a man overboard grips a lifebuoy. Famous for its picturesque medieval chateau and rock stars' villas, Neuchatel clings to the steep wooded slopes on the north bank of its eponymous lake. Everywhere, it clogs the narrow paths between the paqa's domes, clings to the masts and sails of the ship, and teases at the lapping waves of the bay. The Crisis still clings to the conviction that a vote for Woodrow Wilson was NOT a vote for Cole Blease or hoke Smith. Hours later I am there talking to his father and brother, who are sitting outside the ICU while Ali clings to life. But as long as Wiegand clings to that title, he is up against a rhetorical challenge. The top seed staves off a break point with his second ace and clings on. The air of defeat clings to this hangdog bear from the get-go. Show More Sentences Part of me just clings tighter to the covers on my soft, comfy, safe bed. The fragrance is of the shampoo and conditioner they always used on our hair with the soft fragrance of apricots that now clings to my strawberry hair. Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights? While our oil fortifier clings to parts preventing dry starts, most of it is removed at each oil change, so it must be added each time new oil is added. It's a haunting description, catching as it does both the whiff of dishonour and the sense of brave deeds never acknowledged that clings to our idea of the spy. Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences. In the centre a microphone hangs from the ceiling, some 30 yards high, to which the referee clings as his gruff voice hollers out the start of each round. Beneath the great dome of the sky, the world is still loathe to wake as it clings desperately to the fragments of dreams that it has all but lost with the dawn. Tracy, the imperious slavocrat, clings desperately to slavery, the economic foundation of his wealth and power. Former President Jiang Zemin, clings to share of power through the Central Military Commission. There the worm clings to the gills while it metamorphoses into a plump, sinusoidal, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear. It sometimes clings to the toe of a common toad and this is believed to be one of the means by which it disperses to new locations. As Lee attempts to extract the furry brown lump from its cage, Mighty Mouse clings stubbornly to its metallic bars. We have also been adding to the fun with our Bucking Bronco ride, with a PS150 prize for the person who clings on the longest. Manny the mantid clings to a branch of the mint plant that attracted many of his meals. A slightly smaller round horn he can't identify clings tighter around his arm and shoulder but delivers a bassy, trombonish sound. The solution clings to his hand and is then rubbed in, before he swipes a towel before it reaches the ceiling, and dries off. For others, her style clings too closely to Cunningham's verticality and crisp shapes. Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth. Now it has grown into a perfectly wretched phrase that lingers like the smoky air that clings to my beloved Boise Foothills during a midwinter temperature inversion. Show More Sentences On twisty B-roads the MiTo clings tenaciously to bends but doesn't cope too well with poor surfaces or potholes, passing on their effects to within the cabin. He gave the impression of a creature whose back has been broken, whose whole essence and energy have been wrenched asunder, yet in which life somehow clings, palpitant. Each clings to his pale attempt at a colorizing lifeline theme. We now know that an invisible energy field, the Higgs field, stretches across the universe, one that clings to fundamental particles like the proton to give them mass. In the painting, a tiny happyface spider clings to a leaf in the foreground as honeycreepers and other birds seek nectar, insects, and berries amid the dense foliage. 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. This clumsiness clings even to the photographs of public men, as they are snapshotted at public meetings. It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. Then the ka that clings to it eternally awoke at my touch and knew me, or so I suppose. The death of that poor fellow, churr, clings to him, say what one may. 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. 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. 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. But despite them a sort of romance clings to that Nueces outlaw. 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. It is soaked and heavy, and it flops about, and tumbles down on you, and clings round your head and makes you mad. Athanase clung to his mother with the ardor of a dying man who clings to life. The quicksilver clings to the gold and forms an amalgam with it. The aphis clings to the ends of young shoots, and sucks out their sap. But little Pauline clings to her knees in an agony of terror. Find more words! 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