hangs about
Example Sentences
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The colder air hangs about until early next week at which point the weather will then gradually turn a little milder with temperatures recovering to a little above the mid March average.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
"I don't want to be one of these fighters that hangs about into my late thirties. I want to get in, get on and get out," he said.
From Reuters • Jul. 22, 2022
It’s the story of the girls’ larger-than-life “honor” — a disembodied thing that hangs about them menacingly, threatening to fall away at any moment, ruining the whole family.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021
On most days, the stench of chicken manure hangs about the downtown complex, and a steady stream of trucks unloads crates of squawking chickens for slaughter, before their carcasses are stripped and washed with chemicals.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020
It is he who says that his skin hangs about him like an old lady’s loose gown, and that he walks before his page like a sow that hath o’erwhelmed all her litter but one.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
