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

She shrank against him, clingingly and protectingly, and he laughed with surety.

From The Game by London, Jack

There was a struggle within me,—not violent nor desperate, but calm and cold,—while the face of that fair young creature was pressed close to my heart by her own arms thrown clingingly around me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

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

Bertha, in her clingingly affectionate way, knelt down beside Madeleine, and laid in her lap two ancient-looking jewel-cases, her bridal gift to Madeleine.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt