Example sentences for: clung

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

  • This is a pretty slim reed to hang Reagan on; he was clearly obsessed with the hostages, and clung to any hope of setting them free.

  • Like a pit bull on Prozac, he clung to the trousers long after the leg was gone.

  • The scent of incense clung to him.

  • England clung to it even when Bourbon forces captured Mallorca at the end of the war.

  • Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.


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