dangle - use in sentences

Object

  • leg: Above the heads of the eagles were dangled legs of mutton.
  • bell: Polygonatum Solomon's Seal Arching stems with dangling white bells.
  • foot: I was hanging off a bridge, dangling 20 feet in the air, tied to a chair, in my boxers!

Modifying Another Word

  • down: A crew from Canvey attended the incident and a firefighter was dangled upside down over the drain to investigate.

Preposition: over

  • edge: Well let's see as you are dangling over the edge of a vertical drop.

Modifying Another Word

  • precariously: I looked up to see the engine of a car dangling precariously about seventy feet above me from a shattered gantry.
  • there: A chunky figure in oilskins stepped into the cascade and flicked at a short rope dangling there.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: Her hair is like strands of vines dangling down from the rain forest.
  • around: Crumpled and sticky and dirty, with her knickers dangling around her knees.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • off: Jack found himself laying down on the bed, his legs still dangling off the edge.

Preposition: in

  • mid-air: Some 15 meters of line was left dangling in mid-air over the six meter deep crater.
  • front: GD: Dangling in front of Amy [ Teresa's host in England ] is the offer of a new life in Sydney.
  • wind: Come jam, and we find Chris Morris dangling in the wind, creating moments of unforgettable shock alongside exercises in tawdry tedium.
  • air: As they did the ship rolled and I was dangling in the air.
  • water: Little hands dangling in the water, what does that mean?

Preposition: from

  • ceiling: You try to listen in, but they're gone, just a couple of mutilated corpses are left dangling from the ceiling.
  • rope: She loves juggling, jumping around and dangling from a rope.
  • tree: The thieves were so angry that they caught him and left him dangling from a tall oak tree.

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