clung

With more than 88 percent of precincts reporting, Hanna clung to a six-point lead.

Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

Yet, try as I would to strangle the idea, all through the evening the same horrible, unaccountable notion clung to me.

The bright head was bowed over the child's, as Rosemary clung to her mother's dress.

Tears filled his eyes, as he lifted the living child from the dead bosom to which it obstinately clung.

And he himself, knowing he must shortly go, still clung and hesitated, hoping against hope.