VERB
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be persistent, refuse to stop
he persisted to call me every night
The child persisted and kept asking questions -
hold the phone line open
Please hang on while I get your folder -
fix to; attach
append a charm to the necklace
How To Use hang on In A Sentence
- But I knew I had to hang on for another lap because it would have been a disaster to lose after such a great fightback.
- While they are stringing popcorn and cranberries to hang on the tree, Beth tells Calvin and Conrad that she had spoken to Carole Lazenby, who had informed her of something that Con should have told them.
- Collect pine cones to hang on the tree. Times, Sunday Times
- That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
- Priestly robes hang on the walls.
- She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness. The Glimpses of the Moon
- It was not the porter who spoke now: it was some kind of official relic or shadow or mouchard left from the old custom-house, and suffered to hang on the railway-station as an ornament. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
- Tops that look like kurtas hang on the racks in departmental stores in the hip Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.
- ‘Hang on a sec babe,’ Jack answered the phone again.
- He managed to hang on to a piece of rock protruding from the cliff face.
