hang upon
Example Sentences
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“I hang upon Tenterhooks” for reports, he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2020
Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Politics, for the next few years, will no longer hang upon the ragged edge of uncertainty and doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, in terms of investment, literally billions of dollars hang upon the survival of his reputation, a fact that accentuates the general reluctance to breathe a word against his work.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am the spine that the mountains hang upon!
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
