hanging
Example Sentences
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Guests enter past rows of hanging Peking ducks and through velvet ropes into a dark, buzzing dining room.
From Salon
The question hanging over all of this is what comes next.
From Barron's
Katrina, like us, is rightly horrified but she’s in her own bind: undocumented, saved by Chris from the streets, with her signature on a confidentiality agreement and a deportation threat hanging over her.
From Los Angeles Times
On Monday, there was a bearish hanging man; on Tuesday, an engulfing candle appeared; and Thursday registered a shooting star.
From Barron's
He would frighten the dogs and take their hidden stashes now and then, but he didn’t harm them and we became accustomed to him hanging around.
From Literature
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