Crossword-Solution: CLINGS 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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___ to (adheres) 1 answer
Doesn't fall off 1 answer
Emulates a limpet 1 answer
Emulates ivy 1 answer
Succumbs to static 1 answer
Holds on tight 1 answer
Sticks to itself, like dress fabric 1 answer
Holds tightly (to) 1 answer
Keeps close 1 answer
Sticks tightly (to) 1 answer
Sticks (to) 3 answers
Won't let go 3 answers
Holds on 3 answers
Doesn't let go 3 answers
Holds tight 4 answers
Peaches 5 answers
Sticks 28 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLINGS (5)

The new inhabitant—who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came—has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oyster-like tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been embedded.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The AM staff is conservative and clings to cataloguing, though of course visitors tout artificial intelligence and neural networks in a manner that suggests that perhaps one need not have cataloguing or that much of it could be put aside.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Epilogue What insights can the study of history bring to the understanding and solution of the American racial situation? How can the knowledge of yesterday's events help us to face tomorrow's decisions? The fact is, whether we know it or not, that the past is always with us and clings tightly to us like a cloak.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Originally it had been built upon the summit of a mountain, but the sides of this mountain have long since been “hydrau-licked” away, so that the town now clings to a mere back bone, and the rear windows of the houses on both sides of the street look down over sheer precipices, into vast pits hundreds of feet deep.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
Her letters from Stephen were necessarily few, and her sense of fidelity clung to the last she had received as a wrecked mariner clings to flotsam.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

Quotes with CLINGS (3)

I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
Colleen Houck
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a…
Jerry Spinelli Stargirl
A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off to his villa driving like mad, You'ld think he's going to a house on fire, And yawns before he's put his foot inside, Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion, Or even rushes back to town again. So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because It clings to him the more closely against his will) And hates himself because he is sick in mind And d…
Titus Lucretius Carus
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 29 times in crossword archives (1984–2023).