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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

She swam back towards the car and tried to cling onto to it, but strong waves pushed her against a sewer pipe.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

A corner of Kumu Maka’s shirt catches in my hand, and I cling to it.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

He gamely wears striped socks and short shorts; she sports Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and clings to her character’s emotional truth like it’s a bucking pterodactyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Washed up on a rock in the Atlantic after a naval disaster, Christopher Martin clings to life with ferocious tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The powder clings beautifully to potatoes before roasting, the dried dairy helping to encourage browning while the herbs perfume every bite.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

In Indonesia's Lembeh Strait at night, a tiny crab clings to a drifting jellyfish.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

When I hug her, she clings to my shoulder.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Having grown increasingly frustrated during the second set, Paolini composed herself for third and held serve easily, while Eala clung on.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Dodgers catcher had previously clung to hope that the two, who had been reported missing, would be found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

A camp of Gen Z has clung to the dream of work-life balance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“This woman clung to her baby, and said, ‘I just had this baby.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Just as I reached him, he picked himself up and clung to a pine sapling like it was Aunt Goldie.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Like hundreds of volunteers and rescuers, he has spent hours clinging to the faintest hope there may be survivors in the rubble, despite the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck this coffee capital on Monday morning.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some passengers were frantically clinging to the hull of the partially submerged vessel, he said, as rescuers administered CPR to a man on a San Francisco police boat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

He’s made the mistake of coming home with the odor still clinging to his clothes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Scotland were clinging on for much of the 1-0 victory over Haiti and many feared that a single-goal win would potentially be damaging for their hopes of progression.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Hurricane Katrina was ripping apart New Orleans, and eleven-year-old Barry Tucker was lost and alone, clinging to an oak tree for dear life.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis