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The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

She swam back towards the car and tried to cling onto to it, but strong waves pushed her against a sewer pipe.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

But in Monday’s game, the Sparks could only cling to the game with clenched fists as the gap widened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

All she could do was cling desperately to Dodger and pray she didn’t fall off as the horse barreled through the burning woods.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

He gamely wears striped socks and short shorts; she sports Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and clings to her character’s emotional truth like it’s a bucking pterodactyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The fungus clings onto the moss stem, ballooning like candy floss around a stick.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

This water layer is only a few molecules thick, yet it clings to the nanopore surface and prevents ions from directly interacting with it.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026

He clings to the hope police could have made a mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Three doors down from me, Gale clings to the decorative iron grating around an apartment door.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Ryder clung onto Nathaniel as waves repeatedly crashed over them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Fox finished fifth, kept his card and clung on to a path that brought wins on the DP World Tour, PGA Tour and now the Open Championship.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Tuchel kept experimenting on the fly and the Three Lions clung on until extra time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

“This woman clung to her baby, and said, ‘I just had this baby.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

And with a groan of love, relief, and pleasure, she reached the mill wheel and thrust her muzzle into the reaching hand of the boy who clung there.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

By clinging to power, Infantino has mounted the start of an attempted fightback.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Some passengers were frantically clinging to the hull of the partially submerged vessel, he said, as rescuers administered CPR to a man on a San Francisco police boat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

He’s made the mistake of coming home with the odor still clinging to his clothes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

"Everybody that has a job is clinging to their jobs, but employers are saying 'we don't need to hire anybody right now.'"

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

They weren’t sure who was shouting “Lieutenant” until they saw someone clinging to a tree branch that hung over the left bank of the river.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple