The little boy was clinging to his mother as they walked into the kindergarten class.
The baby monkey clung to its mother's back as she climbed up into the tree.
A young man is clinging to life after being beaten up by a gang of youths.
The young boy was clinging to a
large rock when he was rescued from the raging river.
The government appears to be hoping to cling to power for another year before it has to call an election.
The swimmer was able to cling to his lead and won the race by a mere hundredths of a second.
Her wet blouse clung to
her breasts.
There was a bit of egg clinging to his beard and mustache.
She was clinging to her boyfriend, afraid he would leave her.
This President seems to be trying to cling to an idea of the past that never quite existed in reality.
She was wearing a short,
clingy skirt that hid very little.
He is a very clingy child, and his teachers are concerned that he is having a lot of difficulty adjusting to his daycare.
His clinging wife was always afraid that he would find another woman.
Long after his wife left him, he still clung to the idea that she loved him and would eventually come back.
The villagers clung together in fear as the monster drew nearer.
The highway clings to the coast for about twenty miles.
Buddhism teaches that the more we cling to the belief in a self, an ego, the more pain and alienation we feel.
The fish has a little sucker on its belly which allows it to cling to rocks for protection against predators.
Baby orangutans cling to their mothers almost continually until they are well over a year old.
An old proverb notes that a bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Melodious though they are, the chants of the Roman Church still cling to the form of the verbal message.
Carlos Castaneda wrote that when one has nothing left to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.
Goethe suggested that we must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise we would not continue to search.
William James noted that we are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.