(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.
Flung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Fling
() imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
(4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
(6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
(7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
(8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
(9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
(11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
(12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
(13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
(14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
(15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
(16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
(17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
(18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
(19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
(20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.