hang around

Example Sentences

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Owner Gino Pozzo doesn't hang around if the situation gets close to this point, let alone reaches it, and he was on the wrong end of chanting from home supporters in yesterday's defeat.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

When he does, he doesn’t plan to hang around very long.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Somehow he managed to hang around the New York hip-hop scene without taking to heart the message conveyed in Run-DMC’s “You Talk Too Much.”

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

For one thing, Powell may now be emboldened to hang around the Fed as a non-chair governor for much longer than planned.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

Would the doorman shout at her not to hang around the elegant hotel?

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty