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clung

/kluhng/US // klʌŋ //UK // (klʌŋ) //

粘着,紧紧抓住,粘着的,紧紧地抓住

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : simple past tense and past participle of cling.

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Examples

  • Sierra had clung to life for seven weeks before finally succumbing to her wound.

  • But Kate has clung to her middle-class roots and middle-class ideas of child-rearing defiantly.

  • As the term splintered, people clung to it and its variations.

  • The first run, I just clung to the fence as the bulls passed.

  • With more than 88 percent of precincts reporting, Hanna clung to a six-point lead.

  • Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

  • Yet, try as I would to strangle the idea, all through the evening the same horrible, unaccountable notion clung to me.

  • The bright head was bowed over the child's, as Rosemary clung to her mother's dress.

  • Tears filled his eyes, as he lifted the living child from the dead bosom to which it obstinately clung.

  • And he himself, knowing he must shortly go, still clung and hesitated, hoping against hope.