Sentence examples for cling for from inspiring English sources

Of all the plants to which men cling for survival, the only one to have a war named after it is the potato.

There is much dramatic squealing as waves of water hit the deck and we cling for dear life to the rails.

This, I think she is saying, is why we cling, for example, to a sort of magical thinking about the impending ecological disaster; we are in noisy denial.

Forest, often a mess and even an embarrassment in recent years, anything to which they can cling for a bit of pride and enthusiasm is to be welcomed.

It is highly debatable whether even an FA Cup success would have won supporters round in any case, but defeat merely removed the last twig to which the manager could cling for support.

It is a sign of how fast China is rising, and how quickly Europe has fallen behind, that European leaders should cling for salvation to a country that, however big, has an economy one-third the size of the European Union's.In this section Will the eagle crash-land?

The Stars were still clinging for life.

He betrayed the schemer clinging for refuge behind his defunct political facade.

This is an increasingly rare corner of Africa to which mystery still clings for most of the outside world.

It was found clinging for safety with a newspaper cutting from 1909, the year the building opened – and it couldn't be more apt.

Wrapped around each other, almost as if they were clinging for dear life, the books seem trapped, their drenched covers frozen.