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Clinging
"Clinging" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Stop clinging to your glory days, or you'll be left behind.
The boy is clinging to his mother.
That child was clinging to his mother.
We are still clinging to the dreams of our youth.
She was still clinging to the hope that her dog would be found alive.
She was clinging to her father.
You have to stop clinging to Tom.
Layla was barely clinging to life.
He, fondly clinging to his fancied sire, / gave all the love that parents' hearts desire, / then seeks the queen.
Lo, Panthus, flying from the Grecian bands, / Panthus, the son of Othrys, Phoebus' seer, / bearing the sacred vessels in his hands, / and vanquished home-gods, to the door draws near, / his grandchild clinging to his side in fear.
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The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.
Yes, very clinging; my cousin has a delightful figure, and can stand it.
He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.
It is a greyish white, high melting metal, very clinging, not very ductile and with difficulty malleable.
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