pendulous
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Despite these challenges, Moritz’s staging — presented as a grand chapel under pendulous lanterns — does indeed crack a window and give “Mass” some much needed fresh air.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022
The flower stalks typically reach over 10 feet tall and are adorned with as many as 20 strikingly beautiful, wonderfully fragrant, white, red-throated pendulous trumpet blooms.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2022
Draped in elaborate spangles, her body is uncorsetted, pendulous and haggard.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2018
A nodding hippie of a plant, Datisca cannabina is a woody perennial with vaguely cannabislike foliage; it sports pendulous, shaggy, fragrant wands of flowers that set chains of love-bead seeds.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017
Even Havermeyer had lifted his head from his plate to gape at him with his heavy, pendulous jaw.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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