hung up on
Example Sentences
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A woman who identified herself as Sheryl Sokoloff hung up on a Times reporter last week when asked about the race expenditures.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Longboard Asset Management has made a strategy of not getting hung up on headlines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
It doesn’t pay to get too hung up on price-to-earnings multiples, he says, because the trading range for stock earnings multiples has shifted higher, quite possibly permanently.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025
Former President Donald Trump hung up on CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski when asked about newly rediscovered photos showing Jeffrey Epstein in attendance at Trump’s 1993 wedding to his second wife, Marla Maples.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025
“Sorrento recites the words on the gate in Latin. And Elvish. And Klingon. Then they get hung up on reciting First Corinthians 13:13, a Bible verse that contains the words ‘charity, hope, and faith.’
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
