hanger

Example Sentences

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A director of national intelligence who’s shown no great abundance of that quality but, rather, an eagerness to twist and bend facts like a coat hanger, serving whatever cockamamie claim the president burps up.

From Los Angeles Times

Her long-term partner, Prudence Fenton, explains in the film that she was allotted “this much” drawer space and two coat hangers when she moved in.

From Salon

“He likes cliff hangers. He loves to tell us to stay tuned for the next exciting episode and we fall for it every time,” a White House reporter explained.

From Salon

I had entered a kind of demon mode, manically grabbing things off hangers and throwing them on the floor.

From Los Angeles Times

“I can’t believe I’m getting out,” she told a caseworker over the phone, scanning her clothes hangers, handbags, space heater, and flower pots.

From Los Angeles Times