fiercely cling

Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words

To hold on with intense and powerful emotion.

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Examples (10)

  • 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  • Even when faced with contradictory evidence, some people will fiercely cling to their outdated beliefs.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.