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dangling

[ US /ˈdæŋɡəɫɪŋ, ˈdæŋɡɫɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dˈæŋɡəlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
    there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait

How To Use dangling In A Sentence

  • As proof of his discreetness, moss had grown all over the stone houses, with small trees sprouting from the roofs, and poison ivy dangling over the walls to cover up the windows.
  • Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.
  • Next to the phone, there was a pencil dangling on a string.
  • His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
  • Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
  • Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
  • A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
  • The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
  • Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky.
  • Sounds like dangling that ole lawsuit bugaboo.
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