Sentence examples for only clinging from inspiring English sources
The hands are filthy, and the shirt collar a ragged disaster, only clinging on by a few grubby threads – but the eyes of prisoner number 1122, a fellow inmate of Reading jail's most famous prisoner, are still sparkling with life and mischief.
A dour 0-0 would've given the impression he was only clinging on by his fingertips, but the manner in which he rescued a point will be grim for the Pardew Out brigade it will seem to confirm that he can never, ever be defeated, especially not in the face of what was, in the end, not nearly the all-out lynching that the press had trailed in the week.
A dour 0-0 would've given the impression he was only clinging on by his fingertips, but the manner in which he rescued a point will be grim for the Pardew Out brigade – it will seem to confirm that he can never, ever be defeated, especially not in the face of what was, in the end, not nearly the all-out lynching that the press had trailed in the week.
With its chipped tiles and shower only just clinging to the wall, it's one that even Network Rail would think about upgrading.
A record 46 million Americans are in poverty, and millions more are only just clinging onto financial stability -- one emergency is all it would take to tip them into disaster.
The ending isn't happy, but I get the feeling Alem can cope with anything, if he only clings on to the one thing he has left: love..
It rubs a bit thin, therefore, that he should withdraw the allegation now everything is done, and we can only cling to the faint hope he tries to behave with a little more decorum next season (fat chance, I know).
The paragraph break also belongs to God, apparently, and Krasznahorkai's wish to convey life as a kind of discontinuous yet relentless flow produces sentences that extend over many pages, through which the reader can only cling to the occasional semi-colon for brief respite, before he is carried downstream.
Like in other industries (such as the rapidly-evolving mobile industry, where new and powerful technologies frequently vie with entrenched legacy systems), the old guard can only cling to power for so long, and sometimes it takes a disaster to prompt that advance.
Several weeks ago in South Jersey there were only cling peaches -- peaches whose flesh sticks to the pit.
The ruling elite of China are communists in name only but cling to power based solely on an ideology of economic growth that most of the population accepts in exchange for a complete lack of political freedom.
