Every hour seemed to bring a new crisis as she barely clung to life.

How could these little creatures, barely clinging to life, be my children?

Dash was left barely clinging to life when rescue had arrived.

He barely clung to consciousness as the force propelled him along the ground.

By the fall of 1989, the regime was barely clinging to power.

Among nearly thirty dead, they found four other patients barely clinging to life.

For all he knew, she could still be alive outside, barely clinging to life.

Of the three, he was now dead and Mickey was barely clinging to life.

For when the old names, some barely clinging to life, finally let go, someone must be waiting in the wings.

Tom Lehman, who is barely clinging to 10th place, would probably be a captain's pick if he fell out of the top 10.