Clinging
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158 examples of Clinging in a sentence
By contrast, Lukashenko is still
clinging
to the 1990s.
Clinging
to an anachronistic view of Britain as a major global power, the Brexiteers argue that the European Union is holding the UK back.
But even if this were so, human agents are not simply ants
clinging
to a log swept along by the current.
Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander, appears to be
clinging
to a variant of this assumption.
But
clinging
adamantly to American exceptionalism at such a time seems like dangerous denialism.
Although Maduro has no plausible legal claim on the presidency, he insists on
clinging
to power.
She looked at him smilingly, but suddenly her eyebrows twitched, she raised her head, and coming quickly to him she took hold of his hand and
clinging
close she enveloped him in her hot breath.
Kitty's burning face, worn with suffering, with a lock of hair
clinging
to her clammy forehead, was turned toward him trying to catch his eye.
He was so drunk that he could not get up the stairs, but on seeing Oblonsky he ordered the men to put him on his feet and,
clinging
to Stephen, he went with him to his room, began relating how he had spent the evening, and fell asleep there.
Fortunately the young man was thin, for, as he was still awkward, he hoisted himself up with a useless expense of muscle, flattening his shoulders and hips, advancing by the strength of his wrists,
clinging
to the planks.
The livid wretch,
clinging
with imbecile obstinacy to his fixed idea, continued to stammer his need of cleaning himself.
Ah! if only I hadn't got this child, you should see!"Estelle, who was
clinging
to her neck, screaming, prevented her from joining Mother Brulé and the others.
And there remained a hundred men to be taken up, all panting,
clinging
to one another, bleeding and half-drowned.
I felt my naked feet
clinging
to the steps of an iron ladder.
Nothing else until the moment when, through a rift in the clouds, I saw the daring captain
clinging
to one of the animal's fins, fighting the monster at close quarters, belaboring his enemy's belly with stabs of the dagger yet unable to deliver the deciding thrust, in other words, a direct hit to the heart.
Clinging
to the stempost, Ned Land thrust his harpoon again and again into the gigantic animal, which imbedded its teeth in our gunwale and lifted the longboat out of the water as a lion would lift a deer.
Picture a forest
clinging
to the sides of a peak in the Harz Mountains, but a submerged forest.
You could feel them
clinging
to the submersible like hounds atop a wild boar in the underbrush.
"That means they don't see us as castaways
clinging
to some wreckage!"
She clutched him,
clinging
to him like the ivy to the wall.
Our hero made the blunder of
clinging
to that little cane chair which in the past had witnessed such brilliant triumphs.
The pole was firmly fixed in the mud, and he was left
clinging
to it while the punt drifted away.
A dry sail
clinging
to your legs and wrapping itself round your head is not pleasant, but, when the sail is sopping wet, it becomes quite vexing.
By
clinging
like grim death to the gunwale, we just managed to keep inside the boat, but it was exhausting work.
He was, however, well mounted on a coach horse of Mr. Wharton's and,
clinging
to the back of the animal with instinctive skill, he abandoned the rein to the beast.
The cleared ground was soon past, and woods and rocks,
clinging
to the precipitous sides of the mountain, again opposed themselves to her progress.
Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted home-sickness
clinging
to his garments as he could.
Behind were another, and another, four-and-twenty in all, flying past us with such a din and clatter, the blue-coated men
clinging
on to the gun and the tumbrils, the drivers cursing and cracking their whips, the manes flying, the mops and buckets clanking, and the whole air filled with the heavy rumble and the jingling of chains.
They would have liked, mutually, to have carried off strips of their flesh
clinging
to their fingers.
The young woman looked at him,
clinging
with both hands to the seat.
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