My mother and father, being immigrants, clung to the world they left by giving all their children traditional Mexican names.

Sometimes, when the mother clings, the boy will try to tear himself away, violently.

And afterward her mother and Alice kissed long and clung to each other.

My mother clung to Nanny by her hairy sweater.

And Private Brown's mother clings to her son's last prescient letter.

Then they endured five roller-coaster months while their mother clung precariously to life in the hospital, lurching from one medical crisis to the next.

His mother clung with both hands to Amy.

His mother and sister clung to the father to keep him from running after the boy.

The mother and the child cling together.

In a social experiment still too young to yield decisive empirical results, most mothers cling to the evidence of their experience.