To come or be in close contact with; to stick or hold together and resist separation.
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
Hold on tightly or tenaciously.
1 I shall be going home soon, and must cling to that thought.
2 This has worrying implications for regimes that hope to cling to power.
3 We should neither cling to the New Labour label nor condemn it.
4 With the oil find, Museveni now has reason to cling onto power.
5 It cannot cling to glass; it must plant its feet in imperfections.
6 Protesters have accused the military of seeking to cling on to power.
7 Cover with cling film and let the fish rest for several hours.
8 If confirmed, the defection would undermine Gaddafi's efforts to cling to power.
9 Just look at how other animal mothers cling tightly to their newborns.
10 They could no longer cling to spurious claims about how education corrupts.
11 The two sleepers had woke in time to cling to the mast.
12 But you are wrong; it is useless to cling to the past.
13 Right about now, it was all he had left to cling to.
14 Cover with cling fi lm and refrigerate for 30 minutes or overnight.
15 We work for our place, and we do not have to cling .
16 But his critics accused him of trying to cling on to power.
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