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/dˈæŋgəlɪŋ/ /dˈæŋglɪŋ/ Listen

Dangling

noun

The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely). Synonyms: hanging, suspension.

Dangle

verb

(past & past part. dangled; pres. part. dangling)

Hang freely. Synonyms: drop, swing. "The light dropped from the ceiling"

Cause to dangle or hang freely.

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"Dangling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ah! my little fatherless one!" Her faded bonnet fell back between her shoulders, hanging on by the strings, and her dropped basket, with its "few lill' becassines-de-mer" dangling from the handle, rolled out its okra and soup-joint upon ...

— Madame Delphine • George W. Cable

... their very grandfather himself. Nay, this rosy-hearted old rogue was as inveterate a matchmaker as if he had been a mother of the world with a houseful of daughters on her hands and with the sons of the nobility dangling around. It would make you wish you could kiss the two dear old souls, Gaius the innkeeper and Old Honest his guest, if you would only read how they laid their grey heads together to help forward the love-making of Matthew and Mercy. Yes, ...

— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte

... cold night, and we walked down Chestnut street dangling that apple, rubbing it on our sleeve, throwing it up and down and catching it again. We stopped at a cigar store to buy some pipe tobacco. Still running on Caliph, by which we mean still beguiled by his geniality, we fell into talk with the tobacconist. "That's a fine ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

... itself. Messieurs Split-log, Round-head, and Walk-in-the-water, fascinated by the eagles on the buttons of Major Montgomerie's uniform, appeared to regard that officer, as if they saw no just cause or impediment why certain weapons dangling at their sides should not be made to perform, and that without delay, an incision in the cranium of their proprietor. True, there was a difficulty. The veteran Major was partially bald, and wanted the top knot ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... deck like a ball-player sliding for a base, and he went slithering to the edge. He would have followed Nicky over the hundred-foot steel precipice if Mamise had not flung herself on him and caught his heel. He was stopped with his right arm dangling out in space and his head at the very ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

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