Definition: 1. Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. 2. Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation. 3. To remain emotionally or intellectually attached. 4. Hold on tightly or tenaciously.
Use 'cling' in a sentence:
1. Though she would cling to him, he made her stand a little longer every day.
2. You mean I actually cling to my fears?
3. Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
4. She had to cling onto the doorhandle until the pain passed.
5. He had one last hope to cling on to.
6. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a signal on a subway.
7. They cling to electrons quite tenaciously.
8. The cat tried to cling to the edge by its claws.
9. As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.
10. Cling on tight!
11. All she had to cling to was her husband Mark.
12. The result indicates that silk fibroin membrane mostly cling to viscose fibre by physics mode.
13. There's no reason to cling to our old ways.
14. "How can you rid yourself of what you cling to"?
15. Even successful entrepreneurs can cling on too long.
16. Despite the low rate of success at the market, parents cling to the hope that they will find a suitable match for their offspring.
17. But these cylinders cling together at a molecular level.
18. Because of Paula, I don't cling to anything anymore.
19. We have to cling to this belief, don't we?
20. She would cling to the doll until she felt satisfied.
21. There will be a time when we have only memories to cling to.
22. He managed to cling on to a ledge 40 feet down the rock face.
23. They hugged each other, clinging together under the lights.
24. Tightly, I cling to this hand.
25. So he is likely to cling on until 2012.
26. Other birds unknowingly carry seeds that cling to them for the ride.
27. The Buddhas love all, yet they do not cling.
28. They're clinging to the past.
29. Some people had to cling to trees as the flash flood bowled them over.
30. He appears determined to cling to power.
31. I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to.
32. They cling to the belly of their oppressor and hang on with tooth and claw.
33. I was terrified he would leave me, so I was clinging to him.
34. Since you don't like your perception of him, why cling to it?
35. Her glass had bits of orange clinging to the rim.
36. They know scholars reject their legend, but they still cling to their belief.
37. She had to cling onto the door handle until the pain passed.
38. The British prime minister is too apt to cling to Washington's apron strings.
39. Often, opposition comes not only from the conservatives, who cling to tradition, but also from the extremist militants, who favor neither the old nor the new.
40. Instead, he appears determined to cling to power.
41. She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.
