(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.
Clinking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clink
Example Sentences:
(1) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
(2) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(3) It is said that Bach’s lily-livered reluctance to push for a ban stems not only from his own close relationship with Vladimir Putin – those pictures of them clinking champagne glasses like newlyweds or whooping it up with other authoritarian leaders at opening ceremonies in Sochi and Baku threaten to define him – but from his own experiences as an athlete.
(4) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(5) How the way their teeth clink on a mug as they drink their tea can make you hate everything about them, even though they are the very same person you once found so bewitching?
(6) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(7) They were boisterous and loving, hugging each other, teasing each other, shouting old stories to roars of laughter, and clinking glasses.
(8) It's an area in which we're expert, having spent a record 74 different stints in the clink, but we never thought our expertise would be brought to bear in pre-match discussion of a semi-final.
(9) "All those fully loaded magazines do not clink, do not move, do not give him away," Henricks said.
(10) He and his colleagues clinked beers, manifestly happy.
(11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
(12) Sanders went out of his way to establish his progressive bona fides on issue after issue as a cheering contingent of supporters yelled, hollered and clinked silverware on glasses to indicate their support for his campaign.
(13) Walking through a town centre on a Sunday afternoon or a Monday evening, you would see the coloured chalkboards outside pubs advertising live football and hear the mingled sounds of cheers, clinking glasses and commentary wafting through the air.
(14) While upsetting traditionalists, one-day international cricket now makes the coins clink, attracting large crowds.
(15) The hardest thing for me now is the language,” Dorcas says, shaking her head so her beaded braids clink together.
(16) On Tuesday he turned 91, on Wednesday he broke his personal best in the 400m hurdles, and on Thursday in Copenhagen, he'll be clinking champagne flutes with the secretary general of Nato and the queen of Spain, as they celebrate 60 glorious years of Bilderberg .
(17) Friday's breakthrough was met by a cheer at the company headquarters, but not the clinking of glasses.
(18) But they are miserable and their conversation keeps stalling amid the clink of glass and cutlery.
(19) Morrison refused to answer questions regarding the memorandum of understanding during a 5-minute signing ceremony on Friday, after which he clinked champagne glasses with Cambodian officials .
(20) We clink glasses – he’s drinking Coke, me wine.