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Example sentences for "clinging"

Lexicographically close words:
clinches; clinching; cline; cling; clingeth; clings; clingstone; clinic; clinical; clinically
  1. In places the bushes hung over it so thick and low that they were obliged to all but creep on hands and knees; again it was so smooth and steep that only by clinging to low growing shrubs could they go forward.

  2. When done, put the fillets on paper to absorb any grease clinging to them, and serve as hot as possible.

  3. Do not fry more than two fritters at once; as you take them up, throw them on paper to absorb any grease clinging to them, serve on a napkin or ornamental dish-paper.

  4. Standing on my toes on this pile, and carefully clinging to the wall with my finger-nails, I managed to bring my eyes to a level with the crack, and peeped through it.

  5. Frank, as he saw that a large, heavy creature of some kind was clinging fast to the flying professor's garment.

  6. Foley, clinging with one hand to a headlight bracket, dropped down on the steam-chest and swung far out.

  7. He sat bouncing clear to the roof and clinging to his levers like a lobster.

  8. She came out of that ordinary clinging to me close.

  9. I looked from Alie, who, enveloped in oilskins, was clinging to the starboard railing, then to the chief officer gazing anxiously aloft, and from both to the men struggling and straining at the wheel.

  10. Jack had already selected his messenger; the man was clinging to the rail of the engine, and only awaited the word to spring during a temporary slackening of speed and plunge into the hills.

  11. So they stood clinging together in that dim place, and broken whispering speech passed between them or long silences when speech was done.

  12. The Misses Wetherell, suggesting two mice being introduced to a party of friendly kittens, standing, clinging to one another, murmur something inaudible.

  13. The Misses Wetherell are still clinging to one another.

  14. She was such a tender, clinging nature, physical love to her was not an incident, it was life itself.

  15. All heaped and crowded and over-built, solid and ragged, decaying and defying decay, clinging to her traditions with both hands, old Rome jostled before us.

  16. Clinging to it in the desperation of outraged womanhood, is Ethel.

  17. Another is clinging with a death grip to a stunted tree, which he caught as he staggered forward, with three bullets in the back.

  18. Then Susie had plunged ahead, uncontrollable; Paul could only bend low above the clinging of Nisana, hold on with hands and knees, hope that no trailing vine or branch would sweep them off into death.

  19. Nor were the men more backward; it was only by clinging like a burr to her mistress's side that Editha escaped a dozen vigorous caresses.

  20. The shield-maiden was standing on the very spot where Leif had left her, Editha clinging to her side.

  21. The last cloud scurried from before the face of the long-suffering moon; before the wind could bring up another fleecy flock, the pale light crept down into the hollow and revealed the dark outline of a cabin clinging among the rocks.

  22. She put out a hand to raise her, but Editha caught it in both of hers, fondling it and clinging to it.

  23. Lozelle, torn from his saddle, but still clinging to the reins, was flung backwards, far backwards, to fall on the stonework of the bridge.

  24. They entered the tent, none forbidding them, and at the end of it saw two women crouched together on some cushions, who rose, clinging to each other.

  25. Trainloads bristling with ragged soldiers passed us--open truck-loads of them, carriage tops covered with sleeping men, some were clinging to the steps and to the buffers.

  26. Further on many of the bridges were unfinished, and in one or two places a landslide had carried away the road itself, leaving a deep clinging mud in its place, but we were getting used to mud.

  27. The professor, who had promised to see us off, was apparently clinging to his bed, for he did not come.

  28. Down, down sank our feet, and we could only extract them again clinging to the carts with the sound of a violent kiss.

  29. Then he essayed to brush some of the clinging snow off his clothes.

  30. She was twirling in her fingers the thin stalk of a wildflower, a light mantle had slipped down to her elbows, and the wide gray ribbons of her hat were clinging to her bosom.

  31. His linen coat and trousers were besmeared with mud; clinging marsh weed was twined round the crown of his old round hat; in his right hand he held a small bag; in the bag something alive was moving.

  32. You, you, Bazarov, clinging to the narrow morality, which .

  33. The poor sisters, clinging together, but now utterly bereft of friends, knew not which way to turn.

  34. Who can pretend to describe the feelings of the father when he felt the arms of his long-lost boy clinging round his neck, and his little heart beating against his own?

  35. Jacques, taking his little sister in his arms, and soothing her as he well knew how to do; whilst she, clinging close to him, could not at first find one word to say.

  36. They seemed terror-stricken, and made no attempt to oppose the warrior ants, except by clinging to them.

  37. There's a far bell ringing, And a phantom voice is singing Of renown for ever clinging To the great days done.

  38. It was extremely steep and slippery; and it was only by clinging to the bushes, and sliding the bier along the ground, that we at length reached the elevated shelf or plateau where the grave had been dug.

  39. The fastenings on one side at length gave out, and as it flapped its wet and clinging folds about our faces, we expected every moment to hear it fly bodily away, leaving us entirely exposed to the pelting of the pitiless storm.

  40. Clinging nervously to the sides of the canoe, and peering out into the dim twilight, we saw nothing but whirling eddies, sunken rocks starting up to meet us, and waves white with foam.

  41. The bird was clinging to the bark much as a nuthatch would, hopping along the vertical trunk upside down, laterally and straight up.

  42. On three occasions birds were observed clinging to the side of a tree as a woodpecker might, pecking away at dead wood.

  43. A pretty little creature she certainly was, and she looked so innocent and clinging that from the first moment it was hardly possible not to be fond of her.

  44. She fell upon her knees, and clinging to him, besought him not to force her to marry, if he would not see her die of grief, as her poor mother had died.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clinging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adherence; agglomeration; agglutination; bite; bond; clamp; clasp; clench; clinch; cling; clinging; clutch; coherence; coherent; cohesive; condensation; conglomeration; consolidation; constant; embrace; foothold; footing; grapple; grasp; grasping; grip; gripe; gripping; hold; holding; hug; inseparability; junction; keeping; nip; purchase; seizure; solidification; stuck; tenacious