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Example Sentences

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This is a big few weeks for Pep Guardiola's side, who have got Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final, Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals and are clinging on in Europe.

From BBC

All sent plumes of grey smoke into the air around Nabatieh, clinging over apartment buildings and businesses, as chaotic search and rescue efforts got under way.

From BBC

From what we see of Scotty in flashbacks, he was a buoyant blond goofball — exactly the kind of guy that the apparently friendless and family-less Kenna would have clung to like a life preserver.

From Los Angeles Times

“She’s clinging because at this point she’s already hurt, right?” the interviewer asked.

From Los Angeles Times

It forgoes the sticky glaze in favor of a deep brown gravy that pools and clings.

From Salon