clings
- present tense form of cling (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Clings to walls by rootlets, producing white flowers in midsummer.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
This hope is invaluable; for it, "like the ivy round the oak, Clings closer in the storm."
From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various
Thus, filtered through yon flutterer's folded mail, Clings the cooled wax, and hardens to a scale.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
Not one blood-guilty am I; no foul stain Clings to thine image from my clinging hand; Whereof one potent proof I have to tell.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
From Poems on Travel by Various
