hangs about
Example Sentences
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For now, a number of residents who live near canals complain about narrowboats' stoves, engines and generators creating pollution that hangs about close to ground level, particularly affecting children.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
"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
Flanagan hangs about a dozen Chekhov guns on the wall, which diminishes the payoff of each, and the deus ex machina shenanigans he pulls are obnoxiously typical.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2016
The morning sun dispels the cold mist that hangs about the mountain peaks, and in a few hours the snow is melted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
