hung out
Example Sentences
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We hung out an enormous “for sale” shingle and put just about everything on the market.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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
The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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