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Example sentences for: clinging

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Newscasters spoke of the Flower Revolution, of the possibility that England might at last stop clinging to ancient protocol and allow its citizens to display the normal range of human emotion.
To which they're clinging fast.
Superb golf facilities abound — several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean — and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
If this seems far-fetched, consider that a major American silver polish company began when a Mr. Wright of New Hampshire extricated one of his cows from a slough in a wet part of a field and was tipped off by the whitish mud clinging to the animal's feet to the presence of what proved to be a surprisingly large deposit of calcium-rich diatomaceous earth.
Often shrouded in mist, the two-lane road hugs the jagged coast and climbs the mountainside, clinging precariously to a narrow ledge.