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Sentence Examples Call me paranoid, but I've been clinging on tightly to my handbags ever since. He said he had fallen asleep while sunbathing on the beach in shallow water and had awoken to find the clinging cirriped firmly in place. Cultivating the spirit of perseverance, they keep plugging grimly along, clinging to the hope that this will eventually do them some good. As I look out of my window now, I see a layer of thick smog clinging to the buildings around the city. The camera enters a living room with scraps of wallpaper clinging to old plaster and dusty unvarnished floorboards. He was wearing all black, his shirt clinging onto his body showing of muscles. Having already had a soaking, I opted to swim back across, and passed a few of the more determined members clinging to the walls on the way! The thought of Nina clinging to Scott's arm and parading him all over school for the rest of the day made a wave of nausea sweep over me. The impeachment process would take more than a year, I'm sure, with the neocons clinging like rabid bulldogs to the seat of power. Geneva surveyed Ian stretching and noticed the slightly dampened from sweat white cotton shirt clinging to his brawny chest. He was drenched as thoroughly as she was, his shirt clinging to him like a second skin. His eyes closed gently, as if he was in a sound sleep, his long eyelashes clinging to one another. And, just as he had feared, the road turned promptly into thick, clinging soup. She dropped the tray among its fellow brethren and shook her hands, wondering how to get rid of the grease clinging to her skin. The black dress was clinging to every curve on her body and had spaghetti straps that criss-crossed in the back. Hillstream loaches have flattened bodies and utilize suckers, permanently clinging to rock faces so they are not swept downstream. A family of pale-faced, dark-haired children in flat caps and shabby clothes clinging together on one bench seat looked up at him as he passed. The clinging to the concept of self can only be eradicated through vipassana. He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks. They were clinging to a rock about 4 metres square and barely one metre above the sea. Show More Sentences While other sculptors made use of clinging drapery, they rarely did so with naturalistic consistency. Mrs Brown said that throughout Jones behaved in a violent and obstructive manner, at one point clinging on to a row of shopping trolleys. If a part object is used for clinging, which quite frequently happens, the relationship can never be satisfactory for the ocnophil. I later found a few stuck on my clothes, clinging to the wet sleeves of my shirt. I push my hair back to find sweat clinging to my brow and realise my shirt is sticking against my skin. Some of the figures are even clinging to cut pieces of bamboo, seemingly recreating the tragic legend of the lost Hmong language. Shaking, he entered, disregarding the stitch in his side and the back of his sweat-soaked tunic clinging to his flesh. It might have been spring, but only just barely, and winter was still clinging to the town of Stancorrie. Only Mitya went on grossly laughing as they followed clinging to each other. Thick, cloud-shaped tufts of the head are left clinging to the side of the glass, serving as a reminder that this beer is heaven-sent. I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side. If you are still clinging to polyester ski pants and an old knit, long sleeved, bike jersey as your race suit, consider Lycra. Then the skeletons, stubborn bits of flesh and muscle still clinging to the bones, move on to the bug room. Sunday dawned grey and forbidding as clouds hung low over Lough Talt, clinging ominously to the hilltops around the lake. Collectively, the players resemble a punch-drunk boxer, bruised and bloodied, clinging onto the ropes for support. The best way to explore them and see the unique blue light of the glow-worms clinging to them is on a black-water rafting trip. A hero policeman caught the driver of a stolen getaway car by clinging to its door as it sped away. But like lefties everywhere, clinging to whatever jetsam keeps us afloat, I believe every revolution ere now was betrayed. Yes, scary movies do seem to be for the sole purpose of clinging to someone. The people had been inside or were clinging to the side of a rubber raft for between six and eight hours before they were rescued. Show More Sentences One pays a heavy price under contemporary conditions for clinging onto that sort of conception. The water drops fell harder down unto the crowd of people, their soaked clothes clinging to their bodies. All of the court ladies that hadn't fainted were clinging to their partners, mortally afraid for their lives. Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control. What a joy to come back from a night out without cigarette smoke clinging to every fibre and to be able to wear your clothes again the next day. Used compost, clinging to pots and trays, can harbour all manner of soil-borne pathogens, including the fungal spores that cause damping off. She sings and shows a lot of cleavage and a clinging black sequined gown accents her shapely gams. She still wore a bright red kerchief, and there were little bits of fabric fuzz clinging to her hair. Somewhere along the line, her hands had been freed and were clinging in his crisp dark hair. Perhaps the best indication of scale are the remoras clinging beneath its chin. Most, actually, were barefoot and clad only in cotton hospital gowns, their stringy hair clinging lankly to their foreheads. She found herself in the brown tight jeans and equally as clinging long sleeve gray shirt that had a very tall collar. The engines were run up to 2500 rpm with the yokes held hard back and both men clinging to the bucking columns. We are still clinging tenaciously to the latter at the expense of the former. He rescued his bag, and clinging to the poles he somehow managed to crawl up the ice foot, but he was pretty wet and soon very cold. And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly. He had removed his gloves but the rest of the uniform remained, clinging tightly to the sculptured muscles of his physique. Nothing else in this comedy moves as freely as his portly stomach, which wobbles heftily inside his clinging outfit. Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies. They were plucked from the river, clinging to one another and a life ring, by members of the Humber Rescue lifeboat. Show More Sentences It is thought they threw them a life ring, to which they were clinging when they were rescued. Others unintentionally sabotage their relationships by exhibiting overly possessive, clinging, dependent behaviour. Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent. Even at that she is badly served by a frumpy blonde wig and clinging dresses that make her look more like a dumpy middle-aged housewife. Federon puffed out his chest, delighted by the sudden attention, allowing his eyes to affix themselves to the neckline of Kendra's clinging top. Trudging up the glen, one comes gradually upon a little limewashed house clinging to a fold in the hills. The second is the glamorous Lady Stephens in a clinging white trouser suit and black boots. But everywhere were cottages, the homes of Dalznans clinging proudly to the mountains' flanks and living out their lives. The current coach is clinging on by his fingertips, and last weekend's Murrayfield defeat was expected, even by most fervent Welsh supporters. When a warm body walks through thick underbrush and passes a tick, the tick attaches itself by clinging to clothing or fur. Petrenko arrived three hours into the party in a clinging black pants outfit and siren-red lipstick. But you cannot really spare the time for that because you may be clinging precariously to a cliff face, attached to ropes and pitons. The story of men clinging to power long after they have outlived their uselessness is as old as the hills and just as obvious. I was the one still clinging, stubbornly and defiantly, to an expectation of miracles. He raised his eyes to the heavens, clinging desperately to the only remaining physical reminder of his past life. Keeley came five minutes later and I got up to hug her, clinging to her in the most pitiable way a heartbroken person could. She smiled up at him, and then looked back over to Kevin, who now had Mary clinging closely to him. The front and back ends of the lifeboat had been blown away, and another man was clinging to the side of it. He was four meters above the floor, clinging tenaciously to a folded arm of the landing gear extender. She creates a character who is past her prime, still clinging to her former glory but feeling it slip away. Show More Sentences Here was no mere embattled tribe clinging hard to existence, but a great and glorious empire. Children at the upper school at East Kennett found a small pipistrelle bat clinging low on the wall on a rainy day in April. They prefer to squander tens of billions a year clinging to the fantasy of a drug-free world. Lemurs do not fully mature until they are two-and-a-half years old, and until then most of their time is spent clinging to their mother. Standing in front of me, dark hair wet and clinging, clothes completely saturated, he was breathing hard, looking incredulous. She had been here a month and almost nothing had changed except that she had more meat clinging to her bones. Some of them were there for nearly a day clinging on for dear life, as they were not able to swim. Instead, she grabs my hand, interlinking her fingers with mine and clinging on so tightly that I can feel the pulse in her cool fingertips. Everything I was clinging onto at that time was defined by it and the trouble was I managed to sell the concept only too well. I mention this only to indicate I still have one toe clinging to current pop culture. As one looks upward at the wall, one can find the serpentine road clinging to the mountain just like a snake with numerous whirls. The blinded Cyclops at the cave exit feels the emerging animals, under whose bellies Odysseus and his followers are clinging. Leading Aircraftsman Ernie Mortimer was left clinging to a piece of debris in the dark for six hours after his prison ship was torpedoed. Five minutes later, he turns up in a worn, old car, droplets of water still clinging to his slapped-down hair. We enfeeble ourselves clinging to transient, ephemeral material things and relationships. It was all going nowhere and we were clinging to the faint hope that Kildare might muster something. Katrina went to him, wrapped her arms around his waist as tightly as a monkey clinging to a branch. Through projective identification, the clinging and overtly dependent borderline partner can express the split-off dependency needs of both. The vine attaches itself with clinging tendrils, which can be difficult to remove from wood siding and mortared brick and stone surfaces. Now most of them look like hippies gone wrong or aged twits clinging to their youth. Show More Sentences Young fish have been observed clinging to their parents with their mouths, even after they are able to swim freely. It wasn't skin tight, but was extremely clingy and you could certainly see features of her body highlighted by the clinging material. She was still dressed in the bodice of the gown, the remaining fabric clinging to her due to a thin mist of sweat. I lowered myself over the edge, and clinging on tightly with my feet, began to lower myself into the gloom. She was wearing a clinging red dress, bright as the petals of a poison flower. He explained that power lines were particularly vulnerable to wet snow driven by high winds clinging to cables and bringing them down. Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals. In fact, opposing sides of the issue are still clinging to the same flawed arguments as they were when Crawford was adjudicated. My muddy shoe slipped, and I banged my kneecap on a fence rail, clinging for dear life. The young woman, a child clinging to each hand, urged those in the momentous queue lining the River Thames to pay her respects to the late Queen Mother on her behalf. We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor. The people of Donetsk are clinging to normality, trying to enjoy the spring, but their anger, disillusionment and fear runs deep. At this moment the revolutionary, like the nation of Syria, is clinging to life. Abbas is toying with making an appeal to the international community and Netanyahu is clinging onto status quo. We must acknowledge the passing of the former while clinging ever tighter to the latter. Soon she felt the first drops of rain begin to fall, and within minutes she was soaked to the skin, her hair clinging heavily to her neck and back. There is a group of about 40 men bunched behind the CSC train, a long line of men clinging for dear life, and then little groups strung out here and there behind the pack. He sees his bare legs splayed out in front of him, and he sees hot brown pitch poured over them, scalding, clinging to his skin. We work with the outer form of our physical existence by bringing our complete attention to the physical body, which is the primary basis for our clinging. She has just stepped on a landmine and she is clinging to life. Show More Sentences He remained clinging to the boat's hull, wearing two life vests. At the present, the U.S. government, while clinging to a sizeable hoard buried in Fort Knox, seeks to disparage it and make little of it as an unimportant metal. I stood up, and wrung out my hair, and went to my satchel and pulled off the shift that was clinging to me, and rubbed myself dry and put on a fresh shift. But that is of most interest either to hardcore Democrats or to non-voters clinging to the bottom of the economy. Joseph was torn between clinging to the ways of his forefathers and accommodating the new spirit of the age that could not long be resisted without violence. Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle. I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. Soon, a pile of the creatures had accumulated and the bridge tipped over and she fell in, clinging the way Jackson had done, but there were too many of them. The walk up the ramp from Waverley Station reveals on the left the beetling houses and gothic towers of the Old Town, clinging to the sides of the Castle rock. Her clothes were clinging to her body, revealing her shapely body. They have a fantastic herringbone hourglass shift dress and a black, long-sleeved jersey dress, again in a clinging 1950s style, both from www.brownsfashion.com. Gaudily attired tribespeople wander through market places selling hand-made embroidery, while conical-hatted workers labour in the rice paddies clinging to the lush hillsides. Like helpless bods clinging to a leaky wreck somewhere between Indonesia and Australia, we were willing to grasp any straw floating past, as drowning people are wont to do. There was a baby in a sling on her back, a brown-haired boy clinging to her hand and skirt, and another, slightly older boy lurking in her shadow. Not a great opera, perhaps, but nevertheless a very interesting one, its disturbing theme clinging naggingly to the conscience in a way than more sumptuous fare rarely does. Reports of a nation humiliated because it has been reduced to choosing between a crook clinging to office and an unvarnished fascist are everywhere. The minnows had appeared in early May, clinging to the cover of the kelp until they had grown venturous enough to strike out for the deeper water. Suddenly, from nowhere, a rumble starts and he hauls himself into a tree, clinging on as, beneath him, a herd of cattle stampedes across his bedding. Children, clinging to favorite toys, huddled on bows while heartsick adults maneuvered motorboats over submerged roads and through trees and bushes to reach higher ground. She put on a black strapless dress that showed just a hint of cleavage, clinging to her body before falling from her waist into a kerchief hemline. Show More Sentences Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below. The buffet breakfast provides an extensive choice including enjoyably creamy scrambled eggs and home-produced honey still clinging to its honeycomb. These woodpeckers have also regularly attacked colonies of nesting house martins by clinging to the side of the inverted mud dome and chipping away a hold. After the long ferry journey, Puerto Natales appears as a cheerful huddle of brightly painted buildings clinging bravely to the shore of the Gulf of Almirante Montt. Every couple of kilometres we passed hill villages, closely packed mazes of flat-roofed mud buildings clinging like beehives to the steep valley walls. At night, then, the woman Noel would lean over his bed to tuck him in as if he were her own child, and he could feel the memory of Merianna clinging close to her skin as well. And in clinging so faithfully to the past, he has stirred uncomfortable complaints that he is propelling his country towards an old-fashioned constitutional crisis. He raised his head slowly, still unable to quash that last desperate hope clinging like a stubborn weed to his thoughts that this might be a mistake. She was dressed in a long clinging black dress that showed off her curves. A gang of Trolls and Orcs appeared out of a portal along with a gang of Shaman-Mages and unnaturally pale and thin women in clinging black clothes. I tried not to notice how the clinging clothes accentuated her figure. On Bank Holiday Monday, about 5.30 pm, a vehicle returning from Coney Island over the strand was immobilised in deep water leaving its four passengers clinging to the roof. He slowly reached up his hand to brush away the wet hair that was clinging to her face, escaped from the hair combs which had been lost in the depths of the water. Slowly she stood up, the vile filth clinging to her clothing. In fact, most of them are clinging on by their fingertips to existence. On the journey I was having contractions and clinging to the car. Honey bees leaving the dispenser-fitted hive did wade through the pollen, but they readily started packing the pollen clinging to their body into their corbiculae. It was slightly discomforting and jarring, especially for a nation clinging to the last vestiges of amateurism and praying for the return of the Corinthian spirit. My lip curled in contempt as I noticed the thing clinging to his arm. Now there were dried cat-tails standing on both sides of the trail, most of their brown furriness still clinging tightly to the top couple inches of stalk. Show More Sentences Ian was riding the cycle, and Amarie was clinging tightly to his back. And then we looked at each other for just a moment, one still moment, before the desperateness took over and we were clinging to each other as tightly as we dared. Proponents of the former position were cast as conservative upholders of Enlightenment verities clinging to modernism as the last bastion of a Eurocentric culture. Mariana stood with the rest of the congregation until her grief overwhelmed her and the force of her sobs left her bent double and clinging to friends for support. Long pants are often clinging, elasticized and hipster style, somewhat low at the waist, then flared at the hemline. We visit a captive breeding programme for the critically endangered takahe, a 2ft-high bird clinging by its beak to survival. When the day comes, I'll probably be clinging to the doorknocker, but so far I think I can just. There are plenty of tough limpets clinging onto the rocks, periwinkle and dogwhelk. When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life. Yes, there are thousands of us dinosauric shooters still clinging to our sixguns and leverguns, but the semi-automatic is definitely king today. She heads back to the bathroom, Zane still clinging to her like a beady-eyed nagapie. With sweat, smoke and failure clinging to his faded dinner jacket, he now works the dying Liverpool club circuit. It's rich and full on the mid palate with spicy pepperiness clinging to the taste receptors. Dazzlingly white houses with blue painted windows clinging to hillsides rising from the deep blue Aegean Sea mark the unmistakable landscape. By clinging to the surface ice, these microscopic plants can keep from being carried by ocean currents down to the dark sea bottom. They are clinging to the safety of Treasuries and the greenback and stiff-arming stocks. By following the Buddhist path to moksha, liberation, one starts to disengage from craving and clinging to impermanent states and things. Dukkha ceases, or can be confined, when craving and clinging cease or are confined. Had he to respond necessarily Imran's desperate quest for power with his own adamancy to keep clinging on to power? The clinging and craving produces karma, which ties us to samsara, the round of death and rebirth. Show More Sentences She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her. By the time he'd finished, his clothes were clinging to his body, revealing the canted v-line of his torso. She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress. Living diatoms are often found clinging in great numbers to filamentous algae, or forming gelatinous masses on various submerged plants. In a few species, the female carries a dwarf male, clinging to it with the mouth. It is smooth in texture and forms delicate, sheetlike thalli, often clinging to rocks. Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore. There is a famous photo of him scoring yet another header and the goalkeeper is clinging on to him while two defenders try in vain to stop him. And Second World War drama Flare Path soon had me blubbing on Duncan James's shoulder and clinging to his thigh. Then, they dipped the sticks into the hole, pulled out the termites clinging to the brushy end, and slurped them up. It's a tangle of suck holes, alder blowdowns and clinging fern and, depending on the rainfall, over-the-boot wet spots or springy peat moss. Slowly, the dancer rolls to emerge from the secrets, several index cards still clinging to her body. Using a small wand, packed with tiny fibres, it goes on a bit like candyfloss, the furry fibres clinging to the wet lashes. She was thrown a life buoy after clinging to what was thought to be a old pier support. The caretaker government loyal to ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is clinging to power and to the hope of an election in July to restore its authority. Both Redcar lifeboats were launched within seven minutes of the call after the windsurfer, from Nunthorpe, was spotted clinging to his disabled sailboard. Spurs ended up clinging onto their 3-2 aggregate lead at Stadion Wisly, with desperate defending and fine goalkeeping from Heurelho Gomes keeping the Polish champions at bay. Spurs ended up clinging on to their 3-2 aggregate lead at Stadion Wisly, with desperate defending and fine goalkeeping from Heurelho Gomes keeping the Polish champions at bay. Spurs ended up clinging onto their first-leg lead at Stadion Wisly, with desperate defending and fine goalkeeping from Heurelho Gomes keeping the Polish champions at bay. My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh. Show More Sentences The girls had to clinging on so they didn't let go of my hands. The morality cops are back on the streets of Tehran looking for clinging clothing and wisps of hair appearing flirtatiously from under headscarves. The Democratic Party is clinging to the same one-point edge over the Republicans that it held before the Philadelphia funfest, writes White House Correspondent Rick Dunham. The path teaches that the way of the enlightened ones stopped their craving, clinging and karmic accumulations, and thus ended their endless cycles of rebirth and suffering. During the summer, the apple snail's small pink eggs can be seen in clusters clinging to bulrush, maiden cane, pickerel weed, duck weed and aquatic grasses. His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage. Our goldcrests would have been clinging to the branches last weekend. Clinging to the roll bar with his big three-fingered gloves, he's wearing fatigues and a 10-gallon pith helmet. Clinging ferociously to the golden days of your youth only illuminates your jowls and sags more brightly, my friend. Clinging to his palm with hook-like feet was one of these bizarre little lizards, its eyes rotating independently. Clinging to the idea of brainwashing is a coping strategy to make hate and death marginally more explicable. Clinging vines, which include trumpet vine, climbing hydrangea and English ivy, adhere to a surface with tiny aerial rootlets that grow from the stems. Clinging on to said defender, viduka, slightly off balance, only manages to tickle the ball with his toecaps, merely toepoking it to the opposition. Examples from Classical Literature That is why it is always so fibrous and divided and entangled in the clinging earth. So he put it, trivially, to himself, and he felt the need of clinging to triviality. Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance. In a moment the four of us stood clinging to one another, amid the ruins of our broken home. A native child or pollywog as the Terrans called them was clinging desperately to the teacher's skirt. They generally slept clinging to the wire-netting at the ends or top of the terrarium. Lorania was still in the saddle, pedalling from sheer force of habit, and clinging to the handle bars. She took her hand from her lips, but a geranium petal was left clinging there, like a bloodstain. He alarmed her with his imperious gesture, and she turned from him, clinging to my neck. The eggs were slightly adhesive, clinging to the hand and to the bobbinet seine. When he took refuge in the Vatican he must have been clinging to some waif and stray of hope. I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars. As many wounded as possible were piled on to the engine, standing in the cab, lying on the tender, or clinging to the cowcatcher. Tunis had shaken his peacoat free of the clinging snow and now stamped his sea-boots on the rug. Beside that she had on her nightdress, and a thin silk kimono, both of which were wetly clinging to her slim little body. I am like a man, wrecked and tempest-tossed, clinging for hope to a single spar. Whether any saved themselves on it, the two clinging to the hawser could not see. Like a punctured ballon it deflated and became a shriveled, clinging thing. Still clinging by its claws to the top of the wire cover, it is untorn, unwrinkled, uncreased. But in the quaint jump of the third the Church had no part, clinging closely to a diatonic process. Show More Sentences Now and then he found a hummock, but there were times when he sank to the knee in clinging goo. At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging. The stallion, with foaming mouth, rushed on, with the lady clinging to him. He endeavoured to unclasp her clinging arms, but she only clung the closer. Across the room of the weightless room the hooded intruder was also clinging. Lucie had, by that time, fallen into a stupor on the floor at his feet, clinging to his hand. Man has too much to do to lift himself out of the still clinging primordial slough to dally with subjectiveness. There he lay like a log, as dumb as the man whom he had left clinging to the taffrail. The end piece can then be taken off, and the fiber clinging to it, which stops the holes, be removed. Not that David had any reason for clinging to so squalid a hostel. If I sat down even for a moment, I was sure to find threads and bits of coloured silk clinging to my clothes after I went away. A dry sail clinging to your legs and wrapping itself round your head is not pleasant, but, when the sail is sopping wet, it becomes quite vexing. He would work his way to the other's back and, clinging there with tooth and nail, drive his knife home until Terkoz was no more. Rosanne yielded and stumbled to her feet, clinging to her friend. She was clinging to beryl so by this time as if she felt safe. She stood as cold and aloof as earlier she had been warm and clinging. Trembling, Lee stood up, with the mute, white-faced aura clinging to him. And all sank down, bonaventure in a mass of weeping and clinging children. She had now become quiet and, clinging with her little hands to Pierre's coat, sat on his arm gazing about her like some little wild animal. We could feel them clinging to our vessel like dogs worrying a wild boar in a copse. Show More Sentences He made no reply, though his eye fell wistfully on the beautiful form of Alice, who was clinging to his arm with the dependency of an infant. The right hand that had been clinging to the cantle was launched out. All show distinctly a clinging to the technic of ceramic art. That clinging mist seemed of evil bodement for our expedition. Even her weeping and her sobs were stifled by her clinging round him. Once he climbed to a dizzy height by clinging to 78 the crags. The high grass softly turned about the wheels and the horse's legs, leaving its seeds clinging to the wet axles and spokes of the wheels. Another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging, while a fifth clung to the broken rudder. Nimbly the lad sprang to its bole, clinging cat-like for an instant before he clambered quietly to the ground below. Reed warblers sing their repetitive, grinding song while clinging to reed stems, while sedge warblers perform in the tops of riverside bushes. With polished blades of ivory they clip off the clinging, fruited cones. Yet now she was clinging to Blake even more closely than was Genevieve. When she took hold of a mop or a broom handle the hands looked like the dried stems of an old creeping vine clinging to a tree. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence. The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them. The goatskin remained clinging tight to the pope all the same. He went down clinging to Goodhue, buried under a mass of his own tacklers. Withal, she was sheerly feminine, tender and soft and clinging, with the smouldering passion of the mate and the motherliness of the woman. The clinging cotton undershirt he wore could not hide the bulge of his tremendous muscles. They became a little more composed in a short time, and went away, not so much hand in hand as clinging to each other. Show More Sentences Bye and bye the eyes closed, and still clinging to the post, she slept. I pushed on through the clinging, maddening gumbo, slithering and sliding. But I was clinging to my idealism as the Lithuanian clung to his. A Perisphaerus female from Malaysia that lived with Beccaloni as a pet carried youngsters clinging to her underparts. His act seemed to unloose a thousand devils in the hairy creature clinging to his throat. It is not that they are scared of death, nor that they are cravenly clinging to life. And there is no cramp in my heart, no miasma clinging to my senses. Under the clinging velvet, her body seemed independent and unsubdued. At sight of a sharp knife and a cowardly Cockney the clinging of life to life overcomes all your fond foolishness. We found at last that we could untwist the stiffly clinging wire. Thirty years later, only the thick walls were standing, with the dull red brick showing here and there through a matted growth of clinging vines. He felt the woman who was clinging to his arm become suddenly a dead weight. He was back at the edge of that oozy, clinging, all devouring trap. And over all this he worked, hacking away at the tough and slippery oiled silk and clinging stoutly to the netting. The berries are very persistent, clinging to the pedicel long after ripe. Just as Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs did themselves in by clinging to an outdated paradigm, so the state system is doing now. It makes me shudder yet when I think of what I felt when I was clinging there between heaven and earth in the person of that proxy. Ben Weatherstaff had seen it done and had himself scraped out mortar from between the bricks of the wall and made pockets of earth for lovely clinging things to grow on. She was a shell, filled with a conflagration, and on the outside of the shell, clinging precariously, the little motes of men, by pull and haul, helped her in the battle. Still clinging to the notion on his deathbed that Piety needs a man for security, he tells his daughter that young Lant will be able to make a living and care for her. Show More Sentences The reader has, probably, not forgotten the impudent beggar who had been clinging fast to the fringes of the cardinal's gallery ever since the beginning of the prologue. Grave notes, and half notes, and demisemiquavers, all clinging to the beam of her interior, and ripening after the nine months, to fly forth duly harmonized. The C on his Carlisle shirt jounces against his chest, spotted with sweat, but more white than gray, not soaked through like Sly's, not clinging like sloughing skin. The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time. He saw the spiral of the descending roadway, the steep crags, the clinging bushes, the peppering of snow-wreaths, and far down in the bottom, the diminished crane. There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives. But clinging to Jesus is exactly what Jesus does not want of her. Find more words! 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