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Example Sentences
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The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Great universities don’t cling to old decisions simply because they were once the right ones,” Palazoglu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He once criticised African leaders who cling to power.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The church would cling to Aristotle for a few more centuries, but the fall of Aristotle and the rise of the void and the infinite were clearly beginning.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
