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Clinging in sentence

158 examples of Clinging in a sentence

But only when we saw the tiny baby baboon clinging to the mother's fur did we realize that something very unique was taking place here with Legadema.
And if anyone should be clinging to the former glory of the coal mining history, and of the town, it should be Judy.
Other people are clinging to a piece of driftwood.
Yesterday my daughter was clinging to my leg, and "Don't go."
I'm going to get on a stage and admit my daughter was clinging to my leg?
It was a few plywood B-huts clinging to a side of a ridge, and sandbags, bunkers, gun positions, and there were 20 men up there of Second Platoon, Battle Company.
But then, in 2012, life took away the only thing that I was clinging on.
And to her credit, she could talk about her reasons for embracing and then clinging to this identity.
But one popular reading suggests that despite never having physically carried the traveler, Ekido broke monastic law by mentally "clinging to" the woman.
By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity; he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.
Maybe clinging to pure identities is a sign of immaturity, and ethnic, nationalist and religious traditions are bad for you.
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank.
They're clinging to a rock face and actually scraping bacteria off that rock face.
Fungi married algae ... clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.
The monarchy was barely clinging to control after the Revolution of 1905.
Obviously it's clinging there, not by animal magnetism, but by chicanery, my index finger being there.
Chaos begins with Stan curiously pulling Ollie's leg cast string, and manages to push The Doctor (Billy Gilbert) out the window, clinging on to it, getting Ollie strung up to the ceiling.
The four characters all make you feel for them, the father trying to assert his authority, the mother still clinging to traditional family values and both trying to keep up appearances despite the total fragmentation of their family, the daughter wanting her own life and the son haunted by his experiences in Vietnam.
I'm hoping it was make-up/costuming, as she portrays an older woman with osteoporosis, though no mention of it is made in the movie-- as a nurse, I can say that she did this perfectly, portraying a woman on the brink of old-age, but clinging to the sparkling past that she reveled in.
Fitzmaurice was not a great user of closeups, and gals of that day had their faces half-hidden with those awful clinging hats anyway, so we do not get as good glimpses of the faces of the two heroines as we would like.
Obsessed with their careers and still desperately clinging to feminist politics, they come off like a bunch of clueless lesbians.
Julie remains in a zombie state, eliciting next to no emotion, remote and numb, only photographing a nearby abandoned prison, finding a startling image of a ghoul girl clinging to the bars of a cell.
So while other actresses were wondering why their careers were foundering (because they were clinging to characters that had been the "in" thing a few years before but were now becoming passe) Joan was listening to the public and securing her longevity as an actress.
With the death of her infirmed husband, May, an older woman faces a future in an urban world that views her as invisible, dead from the neck down, and unwelcome in the pseudo- sophisticated yuppie homes of her son, Bobby and his shallow wife, Helen, and Paula, a self- absorbed, clinging, and minimally talented daughter.
Just about all the action takes place either at night or in the middle of a clinging, pervasive fog.
Even at the end, when she was literally clinging to him in the bar, he didn't say anything mean or abusive, but told her, in a low key, not uncompassionate way, that she needed to go home and sober up.
Then we have this film - which is what it is - still clinging ever so strongly to the vastly resource-depleted story of Carmilla, and lastly there is Twins of Evil which is nothing more than a Carmilla film in name only because of places and general themes and film trends.
I will give it credit for having suspense, though it was the half-hearted, stressful kind of suspense you get when you are in denial about the fact that you are sitting through a numbingly pathetic excuse for a movie and you are clinging to a futile hope that in a couple of minutes it might get interesting.
An artist with a rough childhood, her father dying of Aids, an OCD writer, a failed architect, his wife with breast cancer, one lousy mother, alousy grandmother, and a born-again clinging room mate with a bully boyfriend.
After aiding old time friend and FBI man, Felix Leiter (David Hedison) in a drug bust, and standing up for Felix at his wedding, Bond returns hours later to discover Felix's wife is dead and that Felix is barely clinging to life after being fed to a shark.
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