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125 examples of Cling in a sentence

In fact, if I cling to one memory of this year, it would be walking down a darkened hallway with five spongy fingers grasping the handle underneath my hand.
What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger."
I love it because it has forced me to find and cling to joy.
Now while those in power, old and new, continue to cling to business as usual, millions are still pushing back, and pushing forward to what they hope will be a better life.
This approach is so alluring that it can even be risky, as some may cling onto it as some kind of total solution to our climate crisis.
You can't not know who you are, so you cling to hard-matter identity.
You cling to your land because it is your secure place.
I remember the thick, straight hair, and how it would come around me like a curtain when she bent to pick me up; her soft, southern Thai accent; the way I would cling to her, even if she just wanted to go to the bathroom or get something to eat.
That includes regular tooth brushing, flossing, and avoiding sugary, starchy, and sticky foods that cling to your teeth between meals.
And the more fundamentalist I became in my worship of change and openness, the more I drove you towards the other polarity, to cling, to freeze, to close, to belong.
The lead character in this inner movie, and probably the aspect of consciousness we all cling to most tightly.
In doing so, we found over 600 species of bugs that live in USA homes, everything from spiders and cockroaches to tiny mites that cling to feathers.
We do it so we can cling to the doubts and feel more comfortable about them.
You just want to cling onto this.
Because if we cling to it, and continue to assume that it can underpin our choices, the future that it presents to us is one which is really unmanageable.
Everybody knows at least one of "those guys" who are older and still hang out with the younger crowd in a futile attempt to cling onto their youth.
The truth is Comedy Central was in need of a replacement "Chappelle's Show", and what they got was a show that appeals to idiots that either miss Dave so much they'll cling to any minority variety show, or are satisfied with the plain "Mexicans love tacos" jokes that Carlos Mencia shovels in every week.
security,bondage,satisfaction that i find in my present,is it really what i am or does it really create an illusion that all of us desperately and sometimes ignorantly cling on to just to falsely console the neglected 'meethi' which exists in all of us in some way or the other?
Feeling alienated from the world, they cling to each other for survival with the older Soo-mi obsessively protecting the younger Soo-yeon against danger.
They, and their parishioners, cling to the narrow biblical interpretation of their former leader, and the sisters' father.
It's because films are aimed at lower/middle class traditionalist uneducated people who cling onto whats familiar.
This does not even compare to modern masterpieces such as "Band of Brothers" which do not cling to distant memories that divide America and cause much hurt.
The plot is not really important here, and people that cling to whatever feminist or political agendas when discussing a movie are wasting everybody's time.
But the transition from autocracy to democracy is far from assured: those who in power cling tenaciously to it.
In weighing that choice, Russia must not cling to Cold War rhetoric.
Discredited regimes may cling all the more ruthlessly and ruinously to power, as in Syria.
Invariably, the middle-income trap afflicts those emerging economies that cling to early-stage development models for too long.
In times of profound uncertainty, the tendency is to cling to the domain of the familiar and avoid innovative thinking.
Traumatized Israelis cling to the false hope that their lives will be made safer by incremental unilateral withdrawals from occupied areas, while Palestinians see their remnant territories reduced to little more than human dumping grounds surrounded by a provocative “security barrier” that embarrasses Israel’s friends and fails to bring safety or stability.
The Kurds – who, like the Shi’a, were victimized by Saddam for decades – quietly cling to their de facto independence in the north, making sure that they will never again come under Arab rule.
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