Sentence examples for clingy in from inspiring English sources

The function came first, though, in those long narrow skirts that you could still move in – clingy in knit, slim but not skinny in denim and hard-wearing twill – with neat boxy shirts.

It was clingy in all the wrong places — too tight over the curves; loose and baggy in the middle — basically the problem I had with the things I tried on: knit numbers that had a kicky Zelda Fitzgerald look on the hanger, but on the body evoked the wrong years of Brigitte Nielson.

Did he come across as clingy in a text message, the most easily misunderstood form of communication?

Children and teenagers may also fear separation from their parents and become clingy in their need to re-establish a feeling of safety as soon as possible.

As adults anxiously attached people are inclined to seek a lot of social contact, though depending on how anxious they are they can also be clingy in relationships, seeking frequent reassurance, and worrying that a loved one will leave them.

More likely, you've seen him as an actor in two of Channel 4's finest sitcoms, playing the clingy brother-in-law in the latest series of Peep Show, and one of the "idiots" in Nathan Barley.

Over the past eight months, many shorthand descriptions have appeared in the photo captions of magazines ("the slender and clingy dress in red rubber and lace") but the dress eludes these literal formulas.

Arsenal's destiny in Group A has a distance to run from here, but even in the glow of a second half rally on a horribly still, clingy night in Paris this still felt like a very Arsenal kind of night.

Short, asymmetric, clingy dresses in black and white featured cutaway panels and low backs, which were offset with turtle necks.

She wears short, clingy dresses in a pattern or with some metallic trim, huge enameled or bejeweled hoop earrings and glittery high heels.

Ease off every now and then to show you're not too clingy which in most cases is a turnoff, let her come to you.