Crossword-Solution: CLUNG 5 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Clung imp. & p. p. of Cling
Clung - imp. & p. p. of Cling.
Clung v. i. Wasted away; shrunken.

We have 17 clues for the answer “CLUNG”

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Emulated a limpet 1 answer
Was stick-to-it-ive 1 answer
Held tightly (to) 1 answer
Held on tightly 1 answer
Held on tight 1 answer
Held on desperately 1 answer
Held (to) 1 answer
Adhered closely. 1 answer
Held together 2 answers
Adhered (to) 3 answers
Held on 3 answers
ADHERED 3 answers
Held tightly 4 answers
Held on to 4 answers
Stuck (to) 5 answers
Held fast 6 answers
Stuck 58 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLUNG (5)

She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
His shaggy head is scarcely whiter than it was sixteen years ago, but his little blue eyes have become pale and watery, and his ruddy face is withered, like an apple that has clung all winter to the tree.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
But as Oak was not only provokingly indifferent to public opinion, but a man who clung persistently to old habits and usages, simply because they were old, there was room for doubt as to his motives.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipitation, that fifty feet up in the air, on the roofs and upper stories of high houses and on great trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison altogether, as was proved even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with CLUNG (3)

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close. The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness. Too close. I couldn't stay away.
Maggie Stiefvater Shiver
Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T-bone just out of reach of a hungry dog. "Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood. With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. "When you smell like that," he said, "I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you.
Charlaine Harris
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George Orwell 1984
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 32 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).