What's the difference between clong and clung?

Clong


Definition:

  • () of Cling
  • () imp. of Cling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The possibility of clong avian tumor virus (ATV) by the transfection technique was studied.

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.

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