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Example Sentences
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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
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
“Great universities don’t cling to old decisions simply because they were once the right ones,” Palazoglu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
They cling to dire predictions, like Geoffrey Hinton’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
A few clumps of snow cling to the ends of bare branches overhead, and there are glistening white patches of it on the ground, but they’re thawing.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
