Example Sentences

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When Assistant Principal Samuel S. Jaffe of Brooklyn's Public School No. 150 wanted to say singer, hanger, longing, banging, clingingly, his tongue betrayed him.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I should, clingingly, clutchingly, stick to these shores, I might then, were it agreeable to you, be able to put in three days of Underbank, which I've never seen in its tragic winter mood.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

So my heart yearns to yours now, in absence, more tenderly, more clingingly, than it ever did in happier times!

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

To his clingingly audacious supplications in behalf of the crazed Paul, Pierre had heard an imperious voice whisper: "Do equity!"

From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Lee, Carson Jay

The snow, refusing persistently either to harden or to soften, adhered clingingly to everything it touched.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)