cling

Object

• film: Apply cling film in layers rather than round like a bandage.
• wrap: Cover with cling wrap or foil and set in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
• snow: Communications were also affected as the heavy snow clung to telephone lines to such an extent that many telegraph poles were snapped in two.
• round: How tenacious are the memories that cling round that mighty old hunter!
• man: People terrified of the Arab boogie man clung to Bush like a protective father.
• drive: A clinging drive followed by a rolling nick then a stroke swiftly brought him back into the game.

Preposition: onto

• pattern: We cling onto the old pattern of family breadwinner, forgetting the role working dads now play in the home.
• power: They want to cling onto power or power over their own lives, rather than submit to the one true King.
• side: I clung onto the side and hoped the police wouldn't see me.

Modifying Another Word

• tenaciously: Instead of calling for what was necessary in the form of a general strike, the SWP leadership tenaciously clung to the downturn outlook.
• precariously: The population clings precariously to the brink of extinction, scattered across the desolate land, living in the darkest age in history.
• stubbornly: Cuba Economically isolated and stubbornly clinging to Communism - but yes, it has a motorway network.
• desperately: England have had their chances to tread upon fingernails desperately clinging to the cliff top.
• tightly: Clinging tightly to the ledge, we tried to figure out where we were.
• doggedly: While we fully expected the super high roof Sprinter to end up on its side, it clung doggedly to the surface.

Noun used with modifier

window: GelGems® window clings work best on clean, smooth glass.

Infinitive complement

hope: I clung to hope, I clung to HIM.

Preposition: in

reunion: You cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.

Preposition: for

life: Also handy if you're clinging for dear life from a vertical rock face and you don't want to drop a compass.

Preposition: like

limpet: Pale specks and smudges turned into houses clinging like limpets to the precipitous jungle-clad mountainsides.