hung about
Example Sentences
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Haaland, though, hung about on the pitch with his runners-up medal weighing heavily around his neck, probably contemplating how this season had gone so wrong.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
During these checkups, the animals were anesthetized, and the radar system was hung about half a meter above their chest.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
I think three weeks had passed by the time we were first given a few .22 long rifle rounds to shoot at small bullseye targets hung about 25 feet away.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2021
The remote structure featured a porch surrounding the home and a ladder that hung about 8 feet off the ground.
From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2018
Boys who hung about and eavesdropped on the men’s conversations would be called upon to perform certain tasks—slaughter chickens behind the cooking huts, chop firewood.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
