hung out

Example Sentences

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“I asked if I could spend a day in Mary’s bedroom and just hung out and read my books in there,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

If Mr. Richards had “nothing more than a fragment of a riff,” Mr. Spitz writes, “he could sit and play it for hours, while the rest of the guys hung out, killing time.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Some people, like Jeremy, who was camping in the nearby Firestone Tire parking lot, just hung out during the day; others slept over.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

In the building next door, laundry was hung out to dry next to a pair of children's shoes, but no-one appeared to be inside.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

“There was a cabin on stilts with laundry hung out to dry. I gathered my courage and I stole some sheets for you to wear, Archivist! Here, sir!”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin