What's the difference between clung and slung?

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.

Slung


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Sling
  • (p. p.) of Sling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Sling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
  • (2) When I arrived, I couldn’t make sense of the sprawling, low-slung place at all.
  • (3) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (4) "They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
  • (5) Wearing blue scrubs, she had a large Barack Obama shopping bag slung over her shoulder with the president's beaming portrait beneath the word "Hope".
  • (6) What does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean?
  • (7) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
  • (8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
  • (9) Left ventricular function was assessed during volume loading with blood before and after cutting the chordae tendineae by means of electrocautery applied via flexible wires slung around the chordae and exteriorized through the left ventricular wall.
  • (10) The lights go down, the dry ice swirls, Rossi stands with his back to the stage, Parfitt is coiled, his guitar slung low at groin level.
  • (11) I walked the three blocks home with my backpack slung as low as possible, so that no one walking behind me could see what had happened or could think I had peed myself.
  • (12) In the film, he travels the land and seashore, his painter’s kit slung over one shoulder.
  • (13) This act of terror has not achieved its goal in this sense,” said an unshaven Navalny, with a sports bag slung over his shoulder, after leaving the Moscow detention centre.
  • (14) Located beneath the knee in each walking leg, the cockroach subgenual organ is a thin, fan-shaped flap of tissue slung across the dorsal blood space of the tibia at right angles to the leg's long axis.
  • (15) "He is not here," says a rebel guard: glazed eyes, rifle slung over ill-fitting uniform, pitiably young.
  • (16) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
  • (17) Some of the men sat closest to the edge and sported bows and arrows for self-defence, while others had machete sheaths slung across their backs.
  • (18) Come the end of November, I won’t have a roof.” As a single parent, Steve won’t be the only one slung out.
  • (19) When he wrote that "Redstarts flew from tree to tree, taking the line a slack rope would take slung between them; economy in flight is what makes it graceful", it is the economy of the prose which makes the observation graceful.
  • (20) 4km from Carvalhal and Amália beaches A group of low-slung white buildings surrounded by the empty expanses of the Alentejo, Cerca do Sul has seven rooms, including one family room, all opening on to the terrace.

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