Example sentences of "which clung to the " in BNC.

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1 Before then the only way to reach the last village at this end of the island was by boat or along a narrow path which clung to the hillside above precipitous cliffs .
2 Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade .
3 It was the middle of the orange month — almost the hottest time of the year — when the condensation from the mist which clung to the buildings every morning was welcome for the moisture it imparted .
4 Something red and pulpy squeezed out of the centimetre-wide gap between the executive transporter and the bay wall , forming shivering globules which clung to the wall 's hexagonal bracing struts .
5 Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men .
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