fiercely cling
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
To hold on with intense and powerful emotion.
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- She fiercely clung to him, refusing to let go.
- The child fiercely clung to his mother's leg during the thunderstorm.
- Lost at sea, the survivor fiercely clung to a piece of driftwood.
- Despite the grim prognosis, he fiercely clung to the hope of recovery.
- The aging dictator fiercely clung to power, ignoring calls for his resignation.
- She is fiercely clinging to her independence, rejecting any help offered.
- Even when faced with contradictory evidence, some people will fiercely cling to their outdated beliefs.
- The community had to fiercely cling to its traditions in the face of rapid modernization.
- He fiercely clings to the idea that he was wronged.
- In the final moments, the patient was fiercely clinging to life.