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Use dangle in a sentence

Definition of dangle:

  • (verb) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.

Sentence Examples:

It was ghastly to be dangling in emptiness like this.

It is useless to dangle rich bribes before our eyes.

His napkin dangled loosely half off his arm.

His glasses hung dangling against his shirt front.

From her hands dangled the tiny baby shoes.

Cried Dannie, dangling the fish from the line.

Gobbler dangling on his back, he fled the faster.

The lead-in wire dangled behind him at his belt.

I'll teach him to come dangling after my wife.

It was Romance suddenly dangled right before my eyes.

Morgan indicated the rope ends dangling at his belt.

Then Dangle rose, with a sneer on his face.

On examining the window the rope was found dangling.

It would dangle all up and down his mane.

Ropes could feel the cord dangling on his back.

I should say, let them dangle a little longer.

Simpson's phrase, "dangled after his cousin" a good deal.

Hard by were two others dangling side by side.

The driver sits with dangling legs on a shaft.

It floated there, the rope dangling loosely from it.

For several days their engagement dangled on a thread.

The dangling rope told the rest of the story.

From it dangled down the fine wires, not noticeable.

"What is that dangling from the vine branch overhead?"

For what seemed a long time, Stan dangled there.

From the watch dangled also a massive gold medal.

It always dangles gracefully forward over the left shoulder.

I inspected the article which he dangled aloft triumphantly.

You're keeping them dangling a rather long time, Fritz.

His port rise-rockets dangled, a twisted mass of tubes.

Dangle, do let them know I'll see them directly.

Had it been Dangle only, it would have mattered less.

I only wondered why you've kept me dangling so long.

The rope dangled above her, only a few feet away.

A rope was dangling from far up at the top.

"You haven't any right to keep me dangling this way."

The sleeves dangle over my hands like a fire hose.

He met Blanche out, and came dangling here after her.

A carpeted staircase is preferable to that rope dangling there.

I sighed and dangled, perhaps I even hinted at marriage.

"I have been dangling about, in obedience to her, like a fool."

He seems to have been dangling about you a good deal lately.

Panic screamed in him as he dangled by one arm.

His legs were dangling over the side of the couch.

From each set of wires dangled flat pieces of copper.

I don't fancy dangling at the end of a rope.

His legs are probably dangling over one of its arms.

The grotesque bow-legged pot-hooks dangled idly in her fingers.

Crane's questions, he let them dangle from his fingers.

I grasped it, and drew the dangling end in.

She bowed gracefully, then glanced at the dangling card.

At one point the open truck seemed to dangle over space.

Brass rings dangled from her ears and her nose.

Why don't you kinder dangle 'em so'st they show?

We dangled our feet over the edge and talked about it.

The ladder was dangling right before their noses now.

The speaker dangled his partly filled war-bag as evidence.

Sir Richard jerked his head toward the dangling owls.

He looked about at the signs dangling in front of him.

The remains of the catastrophe dangled from his hand.

Jordan was dangling, his toes barely touching the ground.

For a moment I dangled, without courage to move a hand.

Their upward white faces dangled loosely upon their necks.

Around it dangled prisms, which cast rainbow colors over everything.

A little pencil dangled at the end of my watch-chain.

Instead of a seal, a dagger dangled from his belt.

Tim lit a lantern and dangled it over the water.

Her feet dangled above the sandy bottom of the bay.

From the edge of the moss dangles a silver fringe.

He dangles about with his great ox-eyes fixed on me.

Close against the face of the outer wall something dangled.

Repeated Angel, the scowl deepening; 'dangling a bit of string!

May I some day see her dangling from the yard-arm!

Up it sailed, then fell dangling over the balcony rail.

Luke sat on a table and dangled his long legs.

"He's always dangling round you nowadays, it seems to me."

Then he pointed to the rope dangling down beneath it.

The long dangling figure of Elbow Jenkins had filled out.

Her feet dangled high above the floor of the wagon.

He sat there, dangling an empty pipe between his teeth.

Dangle and I have been diverting ourselves with the papers.

A great boy lounged beside the pond dangling a pole.

A rolled-gold link bracelet dangling a row of friendship hearts.

He held his arm out before him, dangling in the air.

And at last it dangled against the side of the house.

What will you do when the rope dangles in your face?

Larry had somehow managed to seize upon a dangling rope end.

The puppets were once more dangling on the string of Convention.

The second tank was still dangling from his chest.

Suddenly he became conscious of a chain dangling just before him.

From each end of it dangled a part of the cord!

At last shouts were heard, and a rope came dangling down.

As it swung loose a little ball dangled from one end.

His thin legs dangled from his fat, round body.

Iron crosses of both classes were dangled before his eager eyes.

Whenever I let a foot dangle down he strikes at it.

From its ring the old license tag still dangled.

One slim bare leg dangled over the edge of the bunk.

Asked Bud, as he dangled it in front of his cousins.

And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume.