How To Use Cling to In A Sentence

In view of such a unilateral rejection, it is amazing that anyone should continue to cling to the false notion of universal acceptance.
Why cling to the rebel cross?
The pollen from a mallow flower. Its spines help it cling to birds' feathers .
The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.

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My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour.
But I have to cling to the hope that we can get through at the Nou Camp, win our semi-final and I might be fit for the Champions League final.
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question.
Prohibit and use vitamin B6, hibernant spirit, actor falls candy, reserpine, because these medicine can reduce Zun Xuan much cling to curative effect.
They cling to the stalk and peck the seeds off it, especially the seeds of sorrel and persicaria. Times, Sunday Times
The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
In the street, Miguel will spot some foxy muchacho, and ayayay! - he trembles, he staggers, he has to cling to my arm, or Rosario's.
The bluesy southern stomp of Beautiful Sorta, with its restless energy and reckless singing, is doused in drink and James Dean fatalism, and finds Adams flailing around for the arms of a good woman to cling to.
They still cling to many of the old shibboleths of education.
A woman with womanliness takes pleasure in studying, reading papers and surfing internet often, but she doesn't madly cling to fashion magzine and the gossip news.
Based on this mechanism, other phenomena related to receptor and ligand recycling to the cell surface or targeting to the lysosome could be explained, which are also due to the pH difference between the external environment and the interior of the endocytic pathway vesicles. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
Observe the patellae -- with what tenacity they cling to save themselves from being washed into the deep water, and being devoured by the fishes that are playing in its chasms! The King's Own
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. Thich Nhat Hanh
He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place. Times, Sunday Times
Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.
‘Burro! ‘a tricycling tot would squeak, pedalling up eagerly.
He knows what the moss looks like, how high it grows around the base of an oak and how thickly it will cling to a sycamore.
Unable to find the meanness in themselves to give it zero stars, movie critics cling to the illusion that there must be something good about it.
He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom.
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
I like the attention - but what I am trying to cling to is kinda small townish and specific.
Many people fear that he plans to cling to power by postponing elections indefinitely. Times, Sunday Times
Haight Street in San Francisco is a place that knows how to cling to lost causes. US midterms: Nancy Pelosi faces a struggle in her Democratic California heartland
She cling to the hope that he is still alive.
Cycling to work with a limo in tow is up there with hug-a-hoodie. Hot Air From Al Gore
If you learn only the names of techniques and kata, then you would cling to them and lose sight of their true meaning.
But we have to move on from recycling to persuading people not to take home stuff that they will throw away in short order.
They warm my heart somethin 'braave; an' they let the gray mosses cling to 'em an 'the dinky blue butterflies open an' shut their wings 'pon 'em, an' the bramble climb around theer arms. Lying Prophets
Already in her cycling togs, save for a pair of fuzzy tan slippers, she sits down at the tiny kitchen counter and plows through a slab of French toast.
Probable sad answer: cling to it as part of Britain's eccentric genius.
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
He appears determined to cling to power.
A customary error committed by aquarists is to cling to the opinion that the Aponogeton species do not require a rich soil.
Sherpa villages cling to the sides of sheer mountain slopes or sit on top of steep escarpments.
But when trouble arrives people cling together. Times, Sunday Times
Avoid bulky dirndls and tiered skirts, and bias-cut skirts that cling to curves.
The heavy shadows that cling to the orchestration of his more serious-minded works disappear.
It's no wonder we cling to marriage and monogamy as it has been so unartfully defined for us. Jenny Block: Sexual Assault Awareness Month: If We Want to Live Honest Lives, We Have to Tell the Truth
Ancient fluorescent lichens cling to rocks, and fluffy Arctic cotton softens the harshness of the landscape.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. Sylvia Plath
Well-thumbed magazine pictures of body-builders cling to the wall.
Many of them are lipophilic -- meaning they cling to fat. Christopher Gavigan: Dust Becomes You
There were great rocks on the road and thin mist seemed to cling to everywhere.
‘And I was just coming in to tell you that I would always cling to you, and never desert you, ill-use me how you might!’ The Hand of Ethelberta
If you are with a lady friend, make sure you cling to her for dear life and make sure all gestures of affection are as ostentatious as possible.
The cat tried to cling to the edge by its claws.
Maybe it is churlish to cling to the belief that really, as in horse racing, the best seasons see thoroughbred quality separate itself from the throng. Times, Sunday Times
Bearded passages of vegetation cling to steep rock, and the strong Yangtze current spills diagonally along the bottom of the frame.
You'd be a fool to cling to me.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. Thich Nhat Hanh
They cling to their religion, its strict kosher rules and ancient rites of worship.
At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop.
These old apple-trees make very charming bits of the world in October; the leaves cling to them later than to the other trees, and the turf keeps short and green underneath; and in this grass, which was frosty in the morning, and has not quite dried yet, you can find some cold little cider apples, with one side knurly, and one shiny bright red or yellow cheek. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
These are the lifeblood of the Barba people living in the villages that cling to every mountain top.
Mostly, I cling to blankets in the summertime because the comforter is hot, heavy, and a bear to wash if anything spills on it. The Linen Closet
One of the direct benefits they get is political advantage when the nastiness of political ads turns off more reasonable people and polarizes the ideologues to cling to their base. Joe Brewer: The Psychology of Manipulation in Political Ads
A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life?
The good news was that I could allow my adrenals to replenish themselves by incorporating some quieting activities into my hectic lifestyle, such as adding yoga and gentle bicycling to my five-day exercise regimen, Steelsmith said.
I knew who my heroes were and would cling to them with all my might, my surviving legacies of what I could be- a superior id in underoos. What Comes With the Recession of Time
Small gorgonian fans, yellow feather stars and red soft corals cling to the thick roots. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Members of a family should cling together in times of trouble.
We should cling together in times of trouble.
Crab lice are small, light brown, flat insects that cling to pubic hair.
Many people, it is true, are morbidly fascinated by deadlocks and stand-offs and cling to them as old friends and comforters.
Don't wilfully cling to your reckless course.
The club continue to cling to the dream of a fourth-placed Premier League finish, which would bring readmission to the Champions League and the promise of another rip-roaring adventure. Harry Redknapp says idea of Europa League at Tottenham leaves him cold
The batter must be able to cling to the side of the pan.
Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
The cat tried to cling to the edge by its claws.
The trans-Atlantic paradigms of the 20th century became inadequate, but an understandable desire to cling to them persisted in Germany.
Using their two large pairs of long, flat, stiff-rayed fins, the darters cling to the base of the vertical rock surface while still underwater, then inch themselves upward with strong lateral movements.
And these possibilities made her cling to her actual existence with pleasure.
But far older than even these are the colossal grim circles of saints and apostles who cling to the roof of the choir, and yield in size only to the awful figures of the Saviour, the Virgin, and Saint Paul, enthroned in the _apsides_ of the nave and aisles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
As you make your way west of Funchal and into the countryside, the landscape changes and the area is dotted with houses that cling to the side of hills.
You and I, living in a swiftly changing technological age, stubbornly cling to what is now considered antiquated gadgetry.
Polymers - there are various types, such as silicone polymers which cling to the hair with effective conditioning benefits.
Whether this is because pride makes people cling to their living-room furniture to the last, or because bedding is more pawnable, I do not know, but certainly many of the bedrooms I saw were fearful places. The Road to Wigan Pier
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. Mitch Albom
Some people still obdurately cling to their factions, and a fair number of Party members, including some veterans, hold factionalism higher than Party spirit.
Individually they make it their business to find out what the people want or will stand for and the measure of their success in gauging the sentiment of the people is attested by the large number of successful, professional office holders who cling to their seats year after year in our national parliament. Democracy Reawakening
In the trapped heat of the Apennines, they cling to the refracted possibility that the scarce coolness from the snow-covered peaks will blow over and down.
You cling to a cliff face longer without ropes. Times, Sunday Times
People still cling to the story about the girl who was lured by some creepy idiot.
Dust and fine sand particles tend to cling to the surface of the skin, especially in the folds and in between the toes and fingers.
My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour.
Invisible traces of quartz, calcite, gypsum and feldspar, the dust of its resting place for more than two millennia, cling to the bronze.
In a climate where the very idea of academic judgement is disdained, it is hardly surprising that some would cling to what appears to be a more precise and scientific approach.
Maybe you are like an idol to her to have her cling to you so fast.
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
He has continued to cling to the middle ground, but that ground has been shifting.
They know scholars reject their legend, but they still cling to their belief.
The themes are still the same where sleep evades; your warmth is shared with bounteousness unchanged in all these years – I cling to edges of your reverie, listening, jealous in a sense, aware your mood is equally as clear to me. Archive 2007-10-01
First , they cling to their old factional mentality and are politically subversive agitating against the Party.
New students can cling to one another like life rafts to begin with and get into muddled relationships. The Sun
Belittling her intellectual legitimacy is the sort of a tactic often employed by sexists, racists, and others who cling to power for fear of losing it.
We should cling together in times of trouble.
The houses on the north side of this street cling to an immense wall of rock that rises directly behind them. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
You cling to a cliff face longer without ropes. Times, Sunday Times
For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
Whatever we do, they will still cling to their barbaric customs.
When people go through hard times, perhaps they cling to a man of experience. Times, Sunday Times
When last summer I started bicycling to get around, I suddenly was confronted with the amazing amount of recyclable objects on every patch of green, in bushes, under trees, at parking lot corners, near trash cans, etc … Aluminum cans for sure and lots of plastic soda bottles, plastic bags, juice pouches, more plastic water bottles and aluminum/plastic cookie wrappers … Green Bucks
Why cling to the rebel cross?
The one-sided patriarchal system is dying, and to cling to it is now a psychic sin.
We trot along in a whirlwind of dust, blinded, bewildered, jolted, we cling to the bar of the cacolet, shut our eyes, laugh and groan. Sac-Au-Dos 1907
I've just drained the last few drops from the bottle, all that remains are the few beads of condensation that cling to the outside of the stumpy brown empty vessel.
While the latter seem to isolate a single attribute -- all-goodness, all-lovingness, all-powerfulness -- and decide the issue on that basis alone, the former simply emphasize a single attribute but cling to a more complex composite of divine "character. Sherman A. Jackson: The Problem of Suffering: Muslim Theological Reflections
You cling to a cliff face longer without ropes. Times, Sunday Times
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
Well ... the thing to cling to is that everything like this is still decentralised.
White clouds cling to lofty mountain peaks, which rise vertically from out of glacial basins, stretching all the way back to the Southern Alps.
Some people had to cling to trees as the flash flood bowled them over.
Some institutions interstate cling to the idea of Queensland being a cultural and economic backwater, as they have done for a decade or more now.
That can cause tissue and organs to cling together. The Sun
I cling to the belief that my below-the-line critics on this column would be less scabrous to my face. And Zuckerberg created man ... and The Social Network
The tube of filings through which the electric current is made to pass in wireless telegraphy is called a coherer signifying that the filings cohere or cling together under the influence of the electric waves. Marvels of Modern Science
But when a temple of style and urban sophistication founders on ambience, food and service, it doesn't leave much to cling to.
Yet present-day courts cling to this vestige of medievalism.
Of course, there would be a need for an investigatory body to examine those professors who were attempting to hide their ideological roots in a vain attempt to cling to their tenure.
On the other hand the countries of the South cling to the organisation and its charter.
Viewing the name Japheth in this case, it signifies a person of the kind which we call guileless, who believes readily, permitting himself to be easily persuaded of a matter, who does not dispute or cling to his own ideas but submits his mind to the Lord and rests upon his Word, remaining a learner, not desiring to be master over the words and works of God. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
Though by now anthropologists reject claims that early societies were matriarchal, some feminist theorists still cling to the idea that primitive matriarchies once dotted the globe.
Probable sad answer: cling to it as part of Britain's eccentric genius.
Shaak Ti tenaciously continued to cling to life.
Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
Embarrassingly, various ladies in my family continue to cling to a belief in psychics, guardian angels, and other such bunk.
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go, for life is a paradox: we cling to its many gifts eventual relinquishment.
I still cling to the hope that he's alive.
You cling to a cliff face longer without ropes. Times, Sunday Times
She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
Sometimes, in their anxiety to reach a female, four or five males cling to one another and form a chain.
My first thought on hearing this summary of Buddhism was how very much it reminded me of Rudolf Bultmann's definition of faith in keeping with the existentialist Christian tradition as depending on nothing but God, as letting go of all so-called certainties, including doctrinal and religious ones, which turn out to be idols when we cling to them. Archive 2007-09-01
They cling to polysyllabic professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again.
They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above. Why Would They Lie? | ATTACKERMAN
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom.
He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place. Times, Sunday Times
When people go through hard times, perhaps they cling to a man of experience. Times, Sunday Times
She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.
Billions of tiny wax-covered nubs on the surface ensure that dirt particles cannot cling to them and are simply washed away by drops of water dripping down the leaf.
Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung, locked by the screen's grid into something like a checkerboard, if checkerboards wore jewelry.
Although outsiders view the pairing as sordid and unsavoury, the couple cling together, finding solace in this unlikely romance.
“The skirts cling to herbehind, the jackets cling to her bosom, ” laments Barbara Ruelens, aUK-based wardrobe consultant with a roster of high-powered femaleclients.
The family and others also cling to these times of false hope.
For most people, it is far easier to cling to the hope that a losing trade will turn around than it is to admit that the trade did not work and get out of a losing position.
Reports of great white shark encounters with humans have been abundant this summer, with a few harrowing incidents of sharks circling tourist and fishing boats yielding dramatic images.
The tamandua lives in trees, where it can cling to branches with its strong, almost hairless tail.
Life reverted to a series of McJobs once again as he idled around the country going from one gun fair to another - the travelling home of the racist, anti-tax, anti-government militia groups that cling to America's underbelly.
The city wants to expand its recycling to include a broader range of plastics, boxboard, shrink wrap and junk mail, said city recycling supervisor Brady Brunsvold. Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
I still cling to my indestructible angler's hat, and it still resists time and wear to an incredible degree.
They cling to the unprincipled safe middle of every issue.
Highly debatable, yet we cling to all sorts of spurious reasons for the national team's successive failures. Times, Sunday Times
I have an image of myself, floundering in the rising water as I try to cling to floating stems, my feathers bedraggled and flying out in all directions.
It is no longer possible for any section of the global population to cling to a system of thinking that is uncompromisingly antagonistic to the thinking of others.
Only people who cling to old-fashioned customs still fold over the right side of a visiting-card to show that the card was left _in person_, and also fold over the _left side_ to show that the call was intended for _all_ the women of the household. Etiquette
We naturally cling to life in this world, fearful that what lies beyond is worse. Christianity Today
Then there went up a yell such as curdled the blood of half Railsford's as they lay in their beds, and made the domestics up - stairs cling to one another in terror, as if their last moment had come. The Master of the Shell
They could, with one part of their mind, cling to the idea of teacher autonomy.
The whole party will cling to their leader very determinedly.
Once there, he would cling to the handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice-free.
After cycling to Tobermory for an overnight stop and two unforgettable deep fried scallop suppers from the local chippy, we still have a thirst for more beaches.
The really great love not stubbornly cling to it,but at the crucial moment just let him free.
It amazes me that many people do not realize this and still cling to the outdated relics of the past.
“These racers are the professional showmen of cycling,” said Race Director John Eustice, “Their incredible turns of speed and ability to play to the crowd perfectly complement our mission of returning cycling to its American roots as an exciting and glamorous entertainment product.” Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic Marcus Garvey Park «
Henrik is tormented with sorrow over the loss of his wife Anna and the conflict over Karin's leaving is heightened by his need to cling to her in the absence of Anna.
We confess that we more often cling to the past than plan joyfully for an unrevealed future.
Anna sunk down onto the steps and hugged her dog tightly, feeling the sticky, matted fur cling to her hands.
The two friends cling together wherever they go.
I'm out of the habit of cycling to work.
We all know that cycling to work instead of taking the car is the ecofriendly thing to do. Times, Sunday Times
I liked the idea of bicycling to work and I love the idea of bicycling home and working to my tempos rather than to those of others. Mad Dreams, Saving Graces Poland: A Nation in Conspiracy
Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?
It can also make your draw from holster or pocket a little more difficult as fabric tends to cling to the rubber stocks.
Many newspaper editors and owners still cling to the old-fashioned idea that they know better than you how you should vote.
I would like to cling to him, to talk with her.
She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
The Lions 'four-down goal-line stand -- which Bears QB Jay Cutler called "inexcusable" -- temporarily allowed them to cling to a fourth-quarter lead. USATODAY.com Sports News
There are of course short term techniques such as water harvesting by revitalizing rural ponds, water recycling to water conservation.
There is nothing ultimately to cling to in this world, Dipa Ma taught, but we can make good use of everything in it.
Because they are terrible swimmers, they must cling to riparian roots in order not to be washed away.
The traditionalists who cling to uptight Wall Street business wardrobes and rooms full of Hepplewhite reproductions are exiled to style Siberia.
Small children cling to their mothers.
Many people fear that he plans to cling to power by postponing elections indefinitely. Times, Sunday Times
The one-sided patriarchal system is dying, and to cling to it is now a psychic sin.
There might not be as many shadows to cling to, but the light from lamp posts was wan and deceiving; he could hide well enough if he needed to.
But when trouble arrives people cling together. Times, Sunday Times
DRB Recycling took waste including debris from demolished buildings, wood chippings and household rubbish.
Baby monkeys cling to their mothers' bodies until they are old enough to start climbing by themselves.
From my time co-habitating the Greater Victoria Public Library with a number of homeless intellectuals, I’m aware that binning is a tricky enterprise that requires well-planned execution for financial sustainability, but this is a residential neighbourhood and I assume there’s plenty of recycling to be had. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » No Binners in Southern Victoria?
Insiders say the controversies that have dogged them both are partly the reason why they still cling to each other in times of crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Medicine is constantly changing and unless you keep up you are doomed to cling to outmoded ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Yet fiercely we cling to old myths that give comfort-justice is out there.
Politics is another source of friction between grandparents, as some baby boomers cling to the ideals of their youth while others adopted the folkways of America's business and professional classes on their way up the economic ladder. For Some Grandparents, Last Goal is to Be Grandkids' Favorites

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