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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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