clinging plant

Example Sentences

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She was that sad, silly spectacle, a clinging plant without support.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

A green, clinging plant, waving long tendrils, clutched at her gown as she passed, and she broke it off, and, twining it into a crown, put it on her hair.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

Beyond were gently undulating hills, clothed by a strange and splendid vegetation, intermingled—for the view was of some extent—with the rugged face of rocks, their hardness softened by masses of clinging plant.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts