clingy

Example Sentences

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People are getting clingy with their chatbots—and it’s giving friends and family pause.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

During Saturday night's live show, Skinner - sporting a clingy, sparkly vest top - hoisted Dowden up so often during their routine, judge Craig Revel Horwood joked it looked more like a weightlifting competition.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

In the middle are two young society beauties wearing the new clingy fashions with uncaricatured style, but amongst the mixed-sex groups that mill around them are gratuitously padded older women.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

So now that I’m back, they’re very, very clingy, which I think is so cute, and so we’ve been co-sleeping.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Shanti shook the clingy mud from her hands.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray