Sentence examples for was clingy from inspiring English sources

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was clingy

adjective

Having a tendency to cling.

  • A clingy minidress

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The warm plastic was clingy and, well, gross.

She was clingy and timid, refusing to leave my lap when I tried to get up.

When they stalked down the runway in their see-through plastic mules, they were a symphony of moving, swaying parts in lingerie that was clingy and often transparent.

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.

It was clingy and uncomfortable.

To be honest, I think this has suited the daddies I've dated; there's nothing they wanted less than a girlfriend who was clingy or possessive, and I was the polar opposite".

Similar(54)

Kit could be clingy, Tony distant.

But her marriage, she added, has never been clingy.

He is clingy and uncertain in the evenings.

The children she sees are clingy, rude, destructive or attention-seeking, and much else besides.

She had promised herself that she wouldn't be clingy with Simon.

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