clung

Unlike every other island in the region that abandoned sugar production generations ago, St. Kitts clung to it until recently.

She clung to the thought of the happiness he could give her.

They sought each other with eager arms, clung together, pressing close, without further speech.

She clung to him in an agony of dread lest he should go, and her sobs grew less frequent.

It took her a long time to go upstairs; her head whirled, and if she had not clung to the baluster she would have fallen.

She is a brave girl, and she loves the Lion (Leo); thou sawest how she clung to him, and saved his life.