hang about

Example Sentences

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"I cannot remember now how I got into Rock'n'Roll, I wish I could, I'd do it again. But in the absence of anything to go on I just sort of read the papers, chat to people, hang about and worry about it before I go to sleep."

From BBC

Navalny tweeted a farewell: “OK. Don’t get bored here without me. And most importantly, don’t hang about. The frog won’t jump off the oil pipes itself.”

From Washington Post

If someone expels the virus through their breath, it can hang about in the air or land on surfaces at the poolside.

From BBC

The Australian, universally known as “Aussie Bri” on the Old World circuit, where he has spent the last decade on former Ryder Cup player Nicolas Colsaerts’s bag, didn’t hang about in the nation’s capital though.

From Golf Digest

He agrees to come to me and doesn't hang about, pulling up on a street outside the bar just seven minutes after answering my text.

From BBC