6 sentences with 'clung'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clung and other words derived from it.
• « It represented a lifeline, and I clung to it with a desperation that only Margaret fully understood. »
• « Those generals in particular clung to their favourite, old-fashioned tactics, sending cavalry in shining uniforms to their deaths in desperate charges, ordering offensives that were doomed to fail, and calling up all available soldiers in reserve. »
• « Fascism was a modern conservatism, a conservatism that clung to its mania for order and hierarchy, but did not seek a return to the days of feudalism and monarchy. »
• « In some cases, such as Dutch control of Indonesia and French sovereignty in Indochina, European powers clung desperately to colonies in the name of preserving their geopolitical importance. »
• « In some cases, socialist parties clung to the traditional Marxist rhetoric of revolution until the early 1970s, but it was increasingly evident to observers that revolution was not really a practical goal that the parties pursued. »
• « Most spectacularly, in early 2002 the euro became the official currency of the entire European Union, except for Britain, which clung tenaciously to the venerable pound sterling. »