hanging
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“Yeah, you won’t know for sure until it’s midnight and your foot is hanging off the bed. If something grabs it? Haunting. Easy to tell.”
From Literature
![]()
Shutting the door behind me, I set the foil packet down on my desk before shucking off my Academy jacket and hanging it carefully in my closet.
From Literature
![]()
And even though they make for great gallery art, “they’re not just for hanging on the wall.”
From Los Angeles Times
A senior Israeli and U.S. official tell us the U.A.E.’s leaders are hanging tough rather than urging the two nations to quit.
Even if it has not yet shown up broadly in the data, he said, anecdotes about “big layoffs because AI can do all these jobs now” are hanging over the stock market.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.