(v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.
(v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
(v. t.) To make to dry up or wither.
(n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(2) Feminism sometimes clings too hard to a sense of identity that always equates "female" with "underdog".
(3) Everton head to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final on Saturday but whether Roberto Martínez clings on beyond that game is open to doubt.
(4) Their families are said be be distraught at the news and have been clinging to the hope their daughters would want to come home.
(5) Her husband, a government official, went straight back to work after being rescued from the roof of the town hall, where he survived by clinging on to the perimeter fence while 70 of his colleagues drowned.
(6) It's just Boris being Boris, we say, as if life were just one extended episode of Have I Got News for You Alternatively, there is the scenario remainers cling to.
(7) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(8) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more On Dave went, clinging to the inverse principle that the less you have to say, the more time you should spend saying it.
(9) Obama said then: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
(10) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(11) As I type I can smell the nauseating scent of death that clings to me still.
(12) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
(13) Arsenal are clinging to the hope that, like Olivier Giroud, who returned as a goal-scoring substitute in the 2-1 loss to United weeks ahead of schedule after fracturing his tibia in late August, Wilshere could yet surprise people and make a speedy recovery.
(14) That Russian meeting appears to have been the key to Milosevic's surrender of power as Ivanov informed him that he would have no support from Moscow if he attempted to cling on.
(15) But it may help steer a few more people away from Starbucks in the direction of Costa or one of those small independent coffee shops, book shops, grocers (etc, etc) whom we should cherish while they cling on in the face of unfair competition.
(16) The union claims Four Seasons, the UK's second largest care home provider, is also "clinging on by its fingernails".
(17) Others are said to be clinging on to the idea that Ukip remains a convenient means of taking votes from the Tories (witness the surreally complacent words of the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle: “I’m not as worried as some might be about Ukip’s appeal to Labour voters.
(18) Hadlow, the controller of BBC2 since 2008 and BBC4 before that, is engaging company with a frustrating tendency to cling to the fence, at least in public.
(19) They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love: illusions.
(20) The only effect on postnatal development of the central nervous system (CNS) was a small transient change in neuromotor clinging ability of female offspring.
Clung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Cling
() imp. & p. p. of Cling.
(v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(2) We were naive, no doubt, but the whole world was naive with us Omar Robert Hamilton But the power of the spectacle faded, the urgency of revolution grew weaker, our enemies regrouped and the elites prepared for elections as we clung ever more to the vanishing unknown.
(3) This meant that the oil, too, flowed in, and when the floods receded they left a ring of black crude around this particular field, and the thick gunk still clung to the blades of grass.
(4) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(5) The idea that any woman can represent all women is clung to, even though it's reductive and absurd.
(6) She has survived the shark tank of commercial theatre, earned a lot, lost a lot (her company still owes about £8m), yet somehow clung on to her charm.
(7) Most of the wounded were moved initially to a local hospital where terrified women and children clung to each other, waiting for news of relatives.
(8) Despite the backlash Hollande clung to the principle of the supertax even after it was dismissed by the country’s highest court, fearing a revolt by his leftwing allies.
(9) Throughout most of that time, he clung on to the cities portfolio.
(10) The truth is that dogma is, if anything, clung to even more tightly in London than in Brussels, and its grip has to be broken in both.
(11) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
(12) The membrane clung to the cell wall even after obliteration of most of the intracellular structure.
(13) That, of course, was why Redgrave clung on so tight.
(14) Personally, I believe that Hayek irrationally clung to a notion of natural order – what he called "spontaneous order" – that blinded him to the humanly-constructed nature of the wealth distributions that occur under conditions that he called "competitive".
(15) Labour was not.” The third theme is the importance of reaching out to England, especially to voters who don’t live in the English towns where Labour clung on in the election.
(16) The other boy had clung to the undercarriage of a lorry to enter the UK.
(17) He clung to his argument that it would be premature to comment until investigations had run their course.
(18) One of the believers said he had clung to the notion of a cosmic end of the world since his father died.
(19) They weren't students of the music, but clung to it as unselfconsciously and with the same desperate energy as their mass audiences.
(20) Some members clung to “#NeverTrump” sympathies even after his run on the Hill.