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Example sentences for: cling

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It also led Viacom--at a time when corporate America was casting doubt on the conglomerate model and stressing the virtues of playing to core strengths--to cling to the things it bought with a discomfiting tenacity.
At least let us cling to the belief that it is unjustified.
Instead they cling to second-placism: Their man is the "strongest backup candidate," as one puts it.
Latin Gen-Xers--called Generation Ñ --cling to their Hispanic heritage and shape popular culture through their artistic contributions.
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.