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Definition of "clung" []

  • Past tense and past participle of cling. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "clung" in a sentence
  • "No stain clung to an aviator more than a blue-on-blue kill."
  • "Ireland, it came to be said that the Mollie Maguires had done it, and so the name clung to them."
  • ""Everything, Dale," the name clung uncertainly upon the speaker's lips;"