hanging

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Before she could say anything, “a client I’d been trying to reach all day was calling in. I said to Laura, ‘Sorry, I have to call you back,’ and disconnected, literally leaving her hanging.

From The Wall Street Journal

Filling his water tank at a petrol station outside the city, lorry driver Abdilrashiid Adam Jamac told AFP he now had an Israeli flag hanging in his home.

From Barron's

According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin's body hanging upside down from a rock face.

From BBC

But past really is prologue, so the question hanging over the discussion Monday night was not about what Altadena has been, but what it will become.

From Los Angeles Times

Then 27th-ranked Italy, in their first World Cup, needed 30 from the last two overs in Kolkata on Monday for a giant-killing that could have left England's World Cup hopes hanging by a thread.

From Barron's