Sentence examples for yet clinging from inspiring English sources

She was "looking into the distance, terrified and weak, yet clinging on to life.

But he quietly ponders his own private endgame, toying with defecting to the rebels, yet clinging to his post, increasingly sure there are no fighters worth joining.

Mademoiselle seemed to feel similarly, wanting to be current and to compete, yet clinging to the wholesome collegiate sensibility that we, the guest editors, were meant to embody.

In Troels, Gale has created an extraordinary character: brutal, sadistic yet clinging, with a gift for spotting the weaknesses of other men and making himself essential to them.

Cielecka is clearly Kane on the last night of her life, angry and desperate yet clinging to life as she confronts her demons, doctors, lovers and even visions of herself as a child and as a future self – a naked, elderly woman.

Yet, clinging to the side of Mount Profitis Elias, the community not only thrived as an agricultural centre but at times supported the entire island.

It lost almost half its seats.The BJP could yet cling to power in Uttar Pradesh.

By discrediting the opposition and using the usual perks, threats and blandishments of incumbency, UMNO and its partners could yet cling to office, at least for a while.

By connecting the 1978 fight and its drug-addled mirror image, Mr. Russell immediately conveys what Dicky lost, literally and in every other way, and the glory he yet clings to.

JOSHUA SEGAL Arnold, Md., Sept. 19, 2012 The Writer Responds One of the contradictions of our national life is that we see ourselves as a religious people, yet cling to the belief that we can separate the secular and the religious with a clear line.

Here is a supposedly sophisticated woman who drops her dress to titillate, yet clings to the bedsheets like a timid teen after she has sex.