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Example sentences for: cling

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Babysitter for Hewlett Packard not only announces but also illustrates that HP has a photo-quality color-printer solution so effective that it's accessible even to computer-phobes, those modern-day Luddites who cling to their yellow legal pads.
Over time, their policies- repression, rewards, emigration, and the displacement of popular anger onto scapegoats (generally foreign)-were shaped by the desire to cling to power.
To this day, long after Latin has ceased to be the principal medium of written legal documents and records, lawyers cling to and defend against all comers unnumbered words and phrases in that ancient tongue, under the persuasion, justified or not, that they enrich the legal vocabulary with precision, permanence, and dignity.
Jack and Bob subscribe to a new form of male bonding: They cling to each other and sob.
What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to "intensive motherhood," as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.