hinge
Example Sentences
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“It Was Just an Accident” hinges on that chilling squeaking, which Vahid notices at the start of the movie and then not again until the very end.
From Los Angeles Times
Perhaps even more will now hinge on whether the team can secure Champions League qualification for next season.
From BBC
The entire discipline hinges on a man either throwing a woman into the air or holding her over his head.
Their emotional tip-toeing reaches a breaking point in episode 4 with the tuna melt scene, arguably the emotional hinge of the series.
From Salon
I lifted several doors off their hinges in our house last month to refinish the hardware and hang them straighter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
