cling
verb (used without object)
to adhere closely; stick to.
clinger
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a word derived from
cling.
Example Sentences
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Seems he is a permanent clinger in my circle now.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2014
No cable-car clinger, Caen drives a grey-and black Cadillac convertible on his rounds of nightclubs and restaurants, where, over Dubonnets-on-the-rocks, he gathers much of his material.
From Time Magazine Archive
He just naturally loves helplessness, and when Aylette married I told her for mercy's sake not to be one of these new-fashioned kind of wives, but be a clinger.
From Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher
"Oh, indeed!" more shoulder shrugging and a futurist pose of the black satin "clinger," "What else, then, might the Lady Stearns be doing at my place?"
From Jane Allen, Junior by Edith Bancroft
They once were the coats or outside garment of a swimmer or a clinger of the sea.
From Lord Dolphin by Harriet A. Cheever
