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Sentence Examples To understand the power of rhythm, jump in and hang on if you're lucky enough to be able to ski for even a short distance behind a better skier. Without warning, the powerful microburst left me with little to do except hang on. There could hardly be a greater contrast with this skittishness than the two photographs by Cindy Sherman which hang on a nearby wall. The berries hang on into early spring unless devoured by songbirds, bobwhite, deer, squirrels, or wild turkey. Forty-four Wolfe prints of landscapes, skyscapes and wildlife hang on the walls. Wrap large bundles of nandina berries with florist's tape, add a bow and hang on a door, newel post or mailbox. Instead of bumping Ruby off, let the character develop-and hang on to Jesneck and Eustis. The Conservative leader will probably hang on to his job but only long enough to allow a smooth handover to a younger politician. I would have felt safer if I had a bar to hang on to, rather than hanging suspended in a harness. The sailors' limbs flailed around, desperate to find something to hang on to. They managed to hang on for the remaining five minutes to record a famous victory. It's stuff that seems important enough to hang on to, but not actually important enough to deal with. It's amazing what you hang on to when it should really have been thrown out years ago. We may not want to lose touch with our youth, but we have to be very careful what we hang on to. I would gather information, images, ideas from the raw creative source and try to hang on to as much of it as can. All we are saying is, hang on a minute, let's see if we can do something better. I told the lad on the till to hang on a minute because our stuff was getting mixed up and she gave me such a glare. No bad sentiment, but hang on, that must lead to more heavy goods traffic in the area not less? It comes in a clear heat-sealed pack designed to hang on a hook at the store, showing off exactly what you're getting. My mother spent hours stringing cranberries and popcorn, creating elegant ropes to hang on the branches. Show More Sentences Together, they chopped down the Christmas tree, set it up in the parlor, hung the ornaments, and strung popcorn to hang on the piney branches. Okayo begins to accelerate away from the pacemakers, with Yingjie attempting to hang on in second. I think the Home Secretary wants to hang on to his executive powers and not give them up to judges. She added a touch of pink glamour to her hot hatchback with a pair of fluffy pink handcuffs to hang on the rear-view mirror. Many stock-market investors own small parcels of shares that they hang on to purely because it would cost more to sell them than they are worth. But it won't be worth much in part exchange either, so if you have the space and the inclination you may as well hang on to it. Lumpsuckers and clingfishes have sucker attachments that help them hang on to rocks so they aren't buffeted by the waves. Even though I have lots of people who hang on my every word and would do anything I told them to, I feel impotent and helpless. As a beginner the whole idea is to hang on the pole for as long as possible and gradually practise kicking up your feet into a pike position. There are possibly a dozen paintings in the entire book that might hang on a wall without bringing prompt infuriation. But I knew I had to hang on for another lap because it would have been a disaster to lose after such a great fightback. Spring himself was badly rattled by the experience of the all-night recount which saw him hang on by his fingertips. He has gladly capitulated to a constellation of race-hustling poverty pimps in an repellent effort to hang on at all costs. Paintings on cowskin also hang on the walls adding a Latin flavour to the atmosphere. Well, hang on to the remote because there are a couple of good programmes on and they're not the usual light fluff either. Civilians hang on their every utterance, politicians seek their counsel, and party-givers stroke them. The path plunged downhill at a near-sheer angle, with few hand or footholds, but a free-swinging knotted rope to hang on to. Let the berries hang on the branches a few more days to develop their full sweetness and aroma. If Mayo fail to hang on to their tails early on, the end result could be messy. We hang on the phone tolerating easy-listening music for many eternities, only to talk to script-bound customer service people. Show More Sentences Just tie a few together with raffia or ribbon, and hang on the tree or wire onto garlands and wreaths. How they land is still a mystery, but evidently claws on their back legs act like grappling hooks to snag the trunk and hang on. Some hang on to so-called stub ends, a few shares held for old time's sake, even though they decided to sell out of a position. But it seems our aesthetic is so fractured, so disparate now that there's no common thread, no anchor to hang on to. Evoking 50,000 years of heritage, Aboriginal dot paintings hang on gallery walls from London to Los Angeles. Tops that look like kurtas hang on the racks in departmental stores in the hip Soho neighborhood of Manhattan. His sister jumped in to save him only to be left struggling in the raging sea as the surfer tried to hang on to her. I managed one kick and had to hang on to the stern before hauling myself back into the stroke seat. Many hang on to cameras and handycams to capture the protests and agitations. In a short time the wind begins to kick up, seas rise to 4 feet, and the men hang on to the slippery deck. But hang on, there is no doubt that he must have either stolen or received them. Bright lights illuminate a picture of the ancient kingdom's king and queen, and Xinjiang musical instruments hang on the wall. Now, if you are thinking I'm really out of my tree, just hang on, there is a qualifier at the end of the article. It's too painful for words, and I hang on to a great deal of hope that there may yet come a day when we will see it return. Constructed to hang on the wall, the works present text in cursive writing, sewn into the silk fabric of the support. A robust young laboratory mouse is doing well to hang on for thirty or forty seconds. His little sister is doing anatomically correct crayon drawings for you to hang on the fridge. Can the receiver of a benefit in all conscience hang on to it without paying? As he was exhaling his last breath, he was struggling to live, trying to hang on to the lifeline that he had. The pedestrian walkway rests on steel transverse arms that hang on the cables. Show More Sentences As he entered the clubhouse he glanced at the pictures of famous yachts that hang on the walls. She took a roll of Scotch tape out of her bag and retrieved some pictures from her new binder to hang on her locker door. No, but, I mean, hang on a tick, it's how well a film can convince you of that. Likewise, flower boxes can hang on the deck's railings with azaleas and begonias brightening up that stark wood deck. You quickly tighten the clutch, as tight as you dare, then hang on! He was having a terrible time for the first 25 minutes or so and then he must have thought, hang on, I'm good enough to play wherever and he was fantastic after that. Finally, of course, there is the natural desire of the megalomaniac to hang on to power until the last possible minute and not to take the slightest risk of losing it. If you're starting to get confused, just hang on because it gets deeper. I didn't think she was going to hang on till the end, but she did. She suppressed a curse of anger, when her dress got a hang on a branch. The Second Division club, who have been struggling throughout the close season to hang on to their players, have sent a letter to the league informing them of their decision. Why should a picture always hang on the wall like a hunting trophy? In the end, the team just about managed to hang on to the silver medal. The Evening Press reported yesterday how members of the public are being forced to hang on the telephone in order to have their reports of non-emergency crimes answered. Paper flags of countries that have fought for freedom hang on strings from the ceiling like nationalist Christmas lights. It is a motto today's liberals and progressives would do well to hang on the walls of the political campaign war rooms in the elections of the coming years. The excitement and live energy he creates on stage, captures the imagination of all who see him and his fans hang on his every note when he sings. Instead, though, I'll hang on to it, and use it as a warning to myself every time I'm on the verge of writing something in the heat of the moment. When it comes to being impatient, it seems men are much worse that women and are only prepared to hang on for three minutes before bogging off somewhere else. If there's a place to store our unneeded goodies I shall probably mount a quiet campaign of no activity and hang on to the collection against a rainy day. Show More Sentences Yes, on one hand he's accepting perhaps the reality, but also on the other hand, he's still trying to see if there is a faint hope he can hang on in there. Bookcases line the walls, a fire crackles in the fireplace, Victorian portraits hang on the walls, Dresden china and bric-a-brac clutter the mantelpiece. Chetty's subjects are symbolic tarotlike goddesses and heroines beautifully executed in silk with elegantly visible stitching, which hang on the wall like paintings. Brits in Brussels have to hang on to their chapeaux when Blighty goes into one of its periodic fits of excitement at what is happening across the water. Flashman's father is a man-about-town, one of those who hang on to the skirts of fashionable society which, in the Regency days of his prime, was not over-fastidious. We manage to hang on to most of it into our thirties and forties. You would be right in saying that just as he has numerous people who seem to hang on his every word, he has also amassed a significant number of critics. Draped across them, their cloaks seemed to hang on bodies thin and lank. The doctors said I must hang on because they cannot write me off. They seem sullen, battered, and effectively leaderless, although they are as determined as ever to hang on to the dream of dignity and eventual independence. But hang on, aren't hunting, fishing and shooting also businesses? I once had a neighbor whose favorite stupid pet-owner trick was to have his Rhodesian ridgeback jump up to chomp on and then hang on to a cattle prod. But hang on, isn't it half price if you have your hair in pigtails? The handful of men at the Alamo grimly hang on for survival. You can have your cake and eat it, and hang on to the doily. But hang on to the receipt in case you want to exchange it for something of equivalent value in case you don't need that day or you've had it before. Success will hang on the debaters' ability to exploit this divisive topic. Is constant care and attention the only way to hang on to your husband? We hang on the shadings of the famous Consumer Confidence Index, but how much of it is drug-induced? The guests run hands over twitching boys, suck their cocks, hang on their backs like vampires. Show More Sentences Spring and summer chinook hang on at critically low levels that represent irretrievable loss of invaluable genetic diversity. Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees. I know a lot of people from my late studenty days of the early 90s who were trying to hang on to their student days holed up in bedsits. The Crown Posada, Side, Newcastle, manages to hang on to the ability to stimulate conversation and encourage quiet reflection. Red brigades hang on in islands such as Anglesey in Wales and Brownsea in Dorset, as well as woody fringes in Scotland and northern England. I'll sit here and blow till he comes round with his old go-cart, and then I'll hang on to the tail of it, and try legs with that little Kanuck of his. These boyos can do no wrong, it seems, and from there it was a night of pure metal mayhem, Tuck having the frenzied faithful hang on his every word and movement. There is still an unfortunate tendency to territorialize dance, but none of us is served particularly well when we hang on to our archaic divisions and academic prejudices. Examples from Classical Literature However, my gun is in Rangoon, and I will leave it there, and hang on to my pencil! Haven't you always chosen to hang on to them and join in their dirty tricks? So Owen continued to hang on, harkening not to the grumbled threats of the desperate man with whom he wrestled. The leaves are apt to hang on all winter, especially on the younger growth, and then they often turn a straw color. He said that they were driven just far enough through to hang on the other side like a lambrequin. That mind of his is too sure-fire to hang on so desperately to a mere dream. Their portraits in the rude art of the Berlin lithographer hang on even the walls of the hotels. I awakened the others, and whetter and I got out, leaving Close inside to hang on to the bag. Dangling participles, trailing relatives, and straggling generalities can find no chance to hang on to a periodic sentence. Stan was so chilled he had to hang on to the arm of the sailor to keep his knees from buckling. Three cowards will hang on wapping wharf before the month is up. It ought to hang on westerly and dry for another four or five days. His right hand seemed to hang on the instant for the swoop to his gun. He wanted to wait until midnight on New Year's Eve to pop the question, but just couldn't hang on. We did not know the situation, and we had bought Berande, and there was nothing to do but hang on and muddle through somehow. Then she climbs to safe foothold and hangs, while other gorged bees hang on to her in a cluster. Why did he hang on to the thing for two months afore he mailed it? Rodney, 18 If Katy Perry in her prime couldn't hang on to him I find it hard to believe an oldster like Halliwell can. Manages to hang on with the corrugated,230 though, don't he? Thy body, I sweare by the holye rood, Shall hang on the gallows tree. Show More Sentences As the vehicles pass children hang on to the tailboards and cross the bridge before letting go. All the joy of life seems to me to hang on that little phrase. What kind of hardware are you trying to hang on me, mother wit? Shotguns and small firearms hang on the wall, while game trophies stare glassily over well-heeled clientele. But hang on, it's not just uncivilised tribes who act this way. Unable to hang on as close in the eye of the wind as formerly, he proceeded to slack his sheet a trifle and to ease off a bit, in order to outfoot me. Find more words! 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