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clung

Speech parts

1. clung - Adjective

2. clung - Verb

Derived from cling

Meaning

of Cling

imp. & p. p. of Cling.

Wasted away; shrunken.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. Robert Browning

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. George Orwell

A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock. Raymond Chandler

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do. William Faulkner

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. Tanith Lee

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