Sentence examples for clinging by from inspiring English sources

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

"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.

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.

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.

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?

With a clinging-by-their-fingertips ending, the Cowboys might not have conjured the return-to-normal victory they needed, but their 13-9 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was, at least, not another loss.

Also in the show is the important We Two Boys Together Clinging, inspired by a work by the 19th-century poet Walt Whitman.