Sentence examples for cling by from inspiring English sources

But the young monkey must cling by its own strength to its mother's back.

Certainly loud post-grunge bands still cling by their fingertips at major labels and tour to fewer fans each year.

The people of the northern Netherlands began to be distinguished from the inhabitants of the south (to whom the name Flemings continued to cling) by the appellation Hollanders (French: Hollandais; Italian: Olandese; German: Holländer; and so forth), after their principal province.

It got me to thinking: how can I help prevent you gentlemen from perpetuating "dork cling" by providing the tools to tell the difference between a girl who's playing hard to get and one that wants you to get lost?

Ireland has not yet fallen over the cliff, and insists that it will not seek European aid, but it is clinging by its fingernails.

Ms. Ryan, whose return to the New York stage could not be more welcome, gives a terrific performance as the fear-haunted Mary, clinging by her fingernails to emotional equilibrium.

Last Chance ★ 'Detroit' (closes on Sunday) Lisa D'Amour's brilliant, scarifying dark comedy stars a terrific Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer as a couple clinging by their fingernails to the middle class.

"We've had so many people coming to us, this Siberia of the broken, people who are clinging by their fingertips to the edge of humanity," he says.

One of those clinging by a thread is Send.com, a tiny Internet gift company that a year ago unleashed an advertising blitz of formidable proportions.

Becca, who at 43 is clinging by her fingertips to an acting career, arrives for Thanksgiving aiming to be the pepper upper, calmer of troubled waters and possible rehabilitator of her mother's public image.

He traverses a ravine, clinging by his fingertips, a river roaring beneath: if he loses his footing he could slide down the gorge to his death; suddenly a salmon leaps, "as if I had summoned it".