Example Sentences

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However, both Fire and Phoenix will be clinging to the fact that if they win their remaining games they could still reach the eliminator - albeit it would require other results to go their way.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

By the end of the show’s first half, which takes place in mostly in bars and boîtes in 1920s Paris, those sounds will be clinging to your mind like cigar smoke.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

Or an older one will be clinging to the garments of the busy workers, or perched beside them on a stool.

From Lotus Buds by Carmichael, Amy

Oh! may I think such memories will be clinging Around my name.        GRETTA.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

One party will be wearing foreign clothes, aping foreign manners, adopting foreign ways of doing everything; the other will be clinging tenaciously to the wistaria garments, bamboo sieve-hats, straw-sandals, and the traditions of "Old Japan."

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas