hang upon
Example Sentences
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“I hang upon Tenterhooks” for reports, he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2020
The imported trappings of this offering, adapted by Frederic & Fanny Hatton from the French of Andre-Paul Antoine, hang upon it like a pall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am the spine that the mountains hang upon!
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
