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cling to
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Princeton's WordNet
cling to, hold close, hold tight, clutchverb
hold firmly, usually with one's hands
"She clutched my arm when she got scared"
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cling to in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cling to in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of cling to in a Sentence
I really cling to the letters from people for whom the movie really meant something, it stopped somebody from committing suicide, or at least they credit it for it having saved their lives that day. Whatever someone needed to hear that day to reinforce them as a human being, the movie gave it to them. It's only then you realize you've made something more than just a two-hour movie.
It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944:
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
There's a risk when [ water managers ] cling to the hope of a big snowpack bailing us out, we need to recognize that there's going to be less water to work with.
Translations for cling to
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- تتشبثArabic
- melekatIndonesian
- 堅持Chinese
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