clung
Speech parts
1. clung - Adjective
2. clung - Verb
Derived from cling
Meaning
of Cling
imp. & p. p. of Cling.
Wasted away; shrunken.
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Examples
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I'd had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn't elated, I wasn't confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.