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hang

[hang] / hæŋ /




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My friends don’t all know each other, so I don’t feel comfortable making them pay to hang out with a bunch of people they barely know.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Following the passage of the wetter and windier weather, an area of high pressure will move in during Friday and this could hang around into the following week.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"I hope they find him and I hang on to that hope every day, maybe it will be tomorrow, it might be next year but we have to hang on to hope."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Memorabilia from the court victory hang on its walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

It was going to be tricky to hang on himself and still help her move upward but he didn’t see any other choice.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

In November, Hasina was found guilty by a Dhaka court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to be hanged -- a verdict she described as "political vengeance dressed up as law".

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Speer was given a 20-year prison sentence while Fritz Sauckel, Hitler’s general plenipotentiary for labor mobilization, was hanged for almost exactly the same crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

When Chernin’s Leo raises his voice in Jewish prayer before he is hanged, the memory of a man whose life was wantonly destroyed is momentarily restored.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

A spy’s fate awaits Nathan Hale, who was captured by the British and hanged as a spy.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

That didn’t keep him from hanging signs on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

She added they were looking forward to "enjoying life with our family and friends without this shadow hanging over us".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"It's unbearable. We can't open the windows, even the oranges in the garden and the laundry hanging out to dry are covered in black dust."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

They might see fire blowing out the front of the house but be totally unaware of a victim hanging out the window on the opposite side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Four or five paragraphs were devoted to detailing the theater design—Oriental deities, minarets, hanging rugs, burning incense.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

It was a similar story with the Detroit Lions, who also hung 45 points on the Arizona Cardinals thanks to a monster game from running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who had 207 yards and two touchdowns.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Clancy pleaded not guilty, and her trial recently ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

For years, home prices have marched upward, hitting new record highs as people hung on to their homes and their ultralow mortgage rates, restricting supply.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

A trio of glass panels removed from an abandoned building in Ciudad Juárez still bears the missing-persons posters that were hung there years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I sat for a while after he hung up on me, mourning the Dad I never had, as if the loss was new, rather than forever, before my grief turned into white-hot fury.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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