Example sentences for: clinging

How can you use “clinging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Quite different from the usual Balinese style, the simple, bold, and naturalistic figures include a prince and his servants out hunting wild boar with a woman clinging to his horse.

  • ? If Message in a Bottle is finally about holding onto what's most dear before it's too late, shouldn't we be chucking Costner into the briny and clinging to Newman?

  • About 6 km (4 miles) outside of town, a mountain road takes you up to Casares, a spectacular white hilltop village clinging precariously to the rugged slopes below its Moorish fort.

  • Reporters described the "outpouring" of emotion at the makeshift shrine, mentioning the address over and over again: 20 N. Moore St., 20 N. Moore St. The accompanying videotape used close-up shots and slow pans of the not-entirely cluttered stoop; the camera lingered over the flickering flames of memorial candles and the droplets of water clinging to the flower petals.

  • Once past this obstacle course, you’ll see the cave mouth and a seething mass of leathery bats clinging to the rock face, here and there dropping off, circling and then coming in to land again.


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