hang upon
Example Sentences
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“I hang upon Tenterhooks” for reports, he wrote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2020
Politics, for the next few years, will no longer hang upon the ragged edge of uncertainty and doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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I am the spine that the mountains hang upon!
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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