Example sentences for: clings

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

  • But we may concede that British English, vocabulary, pronunciation, and all, is still in competition with American English and even clings to a limited superiority of prestige.

  • They crowd each other into the roadway, bulge out of tiny auto-rickshaws, and perch on top of buses and trains; a family of four or five clings onto a motor-scooter, and a whole school class on one bullock-cart.

  • The Clinton administration clings to the evasion enshrined by Justice Lewis Powell in the Bakke case: "Rigid" numerical quotas are unfair and discriminatory, while "flexible" goals are not.

  • He clings to the maddening inconsistencies in the former president's answers as if they actually meant something.

  • The road clings precariously to the side of lush, green mountains cleft by deep, dark ravines and often zig-zags on itself in the tightest of hairpin bends.


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