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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61. It will then grow the roots and cling to these.
62. Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?
63. Nevertheless, many people still cling to the vinyl disk as preferable.
64. Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. Sylvia Plath
65. Sometimes, in their anxiety to reach a female, four or five males cling to one another and form a chain.
66. The batter must be able to cling to the side of the pan.
67. You'd be a fool to cling to me.
68. Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
69. Shaak Ti tenaciously continued to cling to life.
70. Don't wilfully cling to your reckless course.
71. The tamandua lives in trees, where it can cling to branches with its strong,(http://sentencedict.com/cling to.html) almost hairless tail.
72. A woman with womanliness takes pleasure in studying, reading papers and surfing internet often, but she doesn't madly cling to fashion magzine and the gossip news.
73. It will lapse from the demand of the social development if we still cling to the present mediatory system in civil action.
74. Although most seahorses are believed to live in shallow water, some also cling to the seagrass mats that float in the open water.
75. But the course proves discovery, in cling to conduIt'should encounter soup, easy aspic cracks conduit.
76. As their emphasis is on this world, they cling to the belief that man is morally perfectible and that Utopia on earth is achievable.
77. Some people tend to tenaciously cling to the misguided concept of racial superiority.
78. “The skirts cling to herbehind, the jackets cling to her bosom, ” laments Barbara Ruelens, aUK-based wardrobe consultant with a roster of high-powered femaleclients.
79. They cling to the unprincipled safe middle of every issue.
80. The rain pelts down as the doctor and a burka-wearing midwife cling to their horse and donkey as they trot up a slippery slope, leaving the roaring river below.
81. The pollen from a mallow flower. Its spines help it cling to birds' feathers .
82. Protected workers, the bulk of the workforce, cling to their jobs. That tends to fossilise the structure of the economy.
83. Crab lice are small, light brown, flat insects that cling to pubic hair.
84. The government may reduce the amount of land to be auctioned or have auctions less frequently when the property market is stagnant and demand is weak. It need not cling to the application list system.
85. The global slump seems to have prompted China to cling to its existing export-led growth strategy.
86. Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung, locked by the screen's grid into something like a checkerboard, if checkerboards wore jewelry.
87. The trans-Atlantic paradigms of the 20th century became inadequate, but an understandable desire to cling to them persisted in Germany.
88. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
89. Once there, he would cling to the handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice-free.
90. They know scholars reject their legend, but they still cling to their belief.
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