Sentences with 'clinging'

Example sentences and phrases with the word clinging and other words derived from it.

« While stubbornly clinging to its titles and claims to authority, the nobility reluctantly entered the economic fields of the bourgeoisie and adopted bourgeois social habits as well. »
« A friend of the Hawkings who was visiting their home one evening was horrified to see that it took Stephen 15 minutes to climb the narrow staircase to the bedroom, clinging to the banisters. »
« The old researchers, clinging to their horror of the vacuum, maintained that the mercury did not descend from the test tube because thin invisible threads - the funiculars - kept it adhered to the inverted base of the tube. »
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