hang about
Example Sentences
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"People over the road were showing pictures with a big fire on the roof. If I'd seen that I would have thought, 'I'm not going to hang about.'"
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022
But most of all it is unexpectedly fun, drawing you through its world of not-very-good-at-this criminals, low-lifes and people who want little more than to just hang about with verve and panache.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2020
She said she would hang about 20 masks at a time, and within an hour they’d be gone.
From Washington Times • May 1, 2020
How lovely to see a long-forgotten favourite pop up unexpectedly on the leaderboard, even if they just hang about for a couple of hours on Thursday morning.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2019
The other thing he did was to hang about in the chandlery.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
