Synonym: clutch, hold close, hold tight. Similar words: owing to, bring together, relating to, according to, bring to a halt, spring to mind, corresponding to, clinging. Meaning: v. hold firmly, usually with one's hands.
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31. The three other principal nuclear powers also cling to the ABM treaty, even though they are not parties to it.
32. The traditionalists who cling to uptight Wall Street business wardrobes and rooms full of Hepplewhite reproductions are exiled to style Siberia.
33. The one-sided patriarchal system is dying, and to cling to it is now a psychic sin.
34. At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.
35. Science has to cling to the available evidence even in the teeth of seeming contradiction.
36. People usually tend to cling to their beliefs until the price for believing them becomes too high, or until after they are victimized by their beliefs. Dr T.P.Chia 
37. 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
38. Baby monkeys cling to their mothers' bodies until they are old enough to start climbing by themselves.
39. Cling to him, and we shall be safe and sound from every danger.
40. We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question.
41. A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life?
42. Polymers - there are various types,(www.Sentencedict.com) such as silicone polymers which cling to the hair with effective conditioning benefits.
43. She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.
44. Some, as mentioned, cling to youthful appearance and risk looking absurd.
45. Well ... the thing to cling to is that everything like this is still decentralised.
46. For the moment I cling to the idea that there are a relatively small number of cell-to-cell signals.
47. And these possibilities made her cling to her actual existence with pleasure.
48. A customary error committed by aquarists is to cling to the opinion that the Aponogeton species do not require a rich soil.
49. I would like to cling to him, to talk with her.
50. He has continued to cling to the middle ground, but that ground has been shifting.
51. Denial, too, seemed to be an effort to cling to hope.
52. They could, with one part of their mind, cling to the idea of teacher autonomy.
53. And then towards the end of his life when he was already ill, he had one last hope to cling to.
54. Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.
55. Why do the most straight forward of people cling to the most desperate of secrets?
56. Now it seemed there was nothing at all to cling to.
57. As the vultures vie for space, the ravens cling to the edges.
58. Whatever we do, they will still cling to their barbaric customs.
59. I cling to her; my sister, Beate, clings to her other side.
60. Yet fiercely we cling to old myths that give comfort-justice is out there.
More similar words: owing to, bring together, relating to, according to, bring to a halt, spring to mind, corresponding to, clinging, cling, clingy, cycling, circling, declining, clingfilm, recycling, encircling, belong to, living thing, clinch, clincher, clinic, incline, decline, recline, inclined, clinical, clinically, polyclinic, inclination, inclined plane.