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Definition of dangle:

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

Sentence Examples:

Not a trace of Dangle nor any other danger was visible as they rode into the dusky, yellow-lit street.

The foremost chief held before him a long stick, with a bunch of white feathers dangling at the end.

He was not a man to dodge trouble that might bring profit dangling to the fringe of her skirt.

The small dangling body seemed to say: 'I am indifferent, but it is perhaps as well that you have done arguing.'

He saw a man's hand dangling among others in the crowd, and in another instant, Laddie had grasped it.

He was smoking the choice after-breakfast pipe of peace, legs dangling, back bent, hands loosely clasped between his knees.

I stooped forward to ascertain the cause; the loose curb dangling at the side of his head gave a satisfactory explanation.

A fellow had returned from the pier with a string of perch a yard long dangling from his pole.

"There goes an officer," whispered Fred, as a tall youth went by with a sword dangling from his belt.

And so I've had to guard against young fellows who would dangle around after a girl for her money.

When the officers saw the dangling slack wire disappearing through a hole in the floor they grasped the situation.

It was like dangling ripe fruit above the mouths of hungry boys to make such a boast in such a land.

This was always dangled before our eyes by Morse as a bait when he wished to drive us harder than usual.

One of his hands went to the tutor's breast, and in his left hand dangled a second dueling pistol.

Though dangling from the straps in a position that would be vertical were we on earth, he slept like a baby.

Now, with her feet dangling into space, she considered how she was to get down into the room below.

Public executions have taken place under its shadow, and witches have dangled from its branches in death's last agonies.

Simpson's statement to be true that the young man was "dangling after his cousin instead of minding his business."

Toby had thrust one hand through the arm of his coat, and with it dangling remained a moment thinking.

Stephen himself galloped up just in time to cut the cords with his sword and rescue the dangling prince.

A telegraph pole came dashing down the flood, its top standing above the water, from which dangled some wires.

We remember the "combs dangling in our faces," and almost mourned their loss for the sake of the poet.

I could see a little light up above and tried to climb to it by some ropes that I found dangling.

The flowers which the country folks call Love-lockets dangle pink and white from their graceful curving stems;.

He sat sideways on the animal, with his feet dangling now on the right and now on the left.

I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud.

She bent over him as she poured out the wine, the gold chain she wore dangling against his cheek.

For some minutes the rope dangled, now and then becoming taut for a moment, and then hanging limp again.

I saw an arm reach into the port-hole and something was dangling at the end of the shadowy hand.

Jan was for hurrying the marriage, but she kept him dangling and always was putting him off.

Dan followed Captain Bruce up the steamer's side and found Barton dangling his legs from a heap of hatch-covers.

The woman's arm slipped from its position and dangled from the edge of the bed like a crazy pendulum.

He sat himself on the rail and dangled his boots over the water and described his state of mind.

She had not forgotten her golden loves, for, from ears, throat, and wrists, dangled many yellow dollars.

The knotted end of a rope was passed through this aperture, and came dangling down to the dungeon floor.

The fishing began, and for what seemed to her a long time Loraine sat absolutely still, dangling the pole.

She crept, until she saw his watch-fob dangling against the counter, and then her heart made a call.

Bob went forward to watch the work, holding on by stray cables that dangled from the wrecked masts.

Anne, who was dangling a bunch of charms for the baby's amusement, stooped and kissed the sunny curls.

His long legs hung limp, his body dangled between those soft wide wings within reach of my face.

Ever have a rope dangled in front of your eyes, sergeant, and a gun-barrel biting into your cheek at the same time?

You can't afford to do, or to leave undone, anything that'll keep that little woman dangling on the ragged edge.

There he saw a coat lying on the edge of the cliff, the dangling sleeve fluttering just within his reach.

Across the wide street, over the Idle Hour Saloon, a man was dangling, suspended from the roof by a rope!

They have dangled their money over my head for years, but I don't care now if I never get it.

Joe showed other holds, and also how to sit on a rope that dangled from the top of the tent.

He slipped the length of the sleeves, his feet dangling in the air over what depth he did not know.

The man on the box put on his hat, with a corner of handkerchief dangling from it over his ear.

She dangled the rich match before his eyes: he blinked them, as he continued to look at her and smile.

The steep side of the cliff, however, was bare, and Ross failed to discover a rope dangling over its surface.

Whispered Corny, as he leaned over to Chris, who sat, apparently, on nothing, with his long legs dangling into space.

Then he saw the tank and the dangling hose, and remembered that he had not filled the boiler.

The groom was backed into an elaborate head-dress, a high, open-work affair of long wired beads with dangling artificial flowers.

He stood on his left foot on the very end of the ledge, with his right foot dangling in space.

There, putting his hands behind his head, he lay on his back, his dangling legs balancing him below.

As I sat on the fence, one of the foremen, in play, threw and caught my legs as they dangled.

Went with him myself; was politely received by a gentleman in a blue apron with a steel dangling in front.

Dangling from one shoulder is a leather shot pouch that cuts off one ounce of number eights for a load.

On the leaf opposite the items for the day, dangling, half torn out, was a pencil sketch of Kate Kearney.

She wore her cherry red dress and the yellow silk handkerchief, with its dangles, was about her head.

It is made of rice-straw plucked up by the roots, the ends being allowed to dangle down at regular intervals.

He had no blanket, his body being bare above the waist, and his long, coarse hair dangled about his shoulders.

Suddenly out of the gloom beneath the bridge upon which he was sitting, dangling his legs, there came a voice.

Impatiently Dick threw the box to the floor and sat down with his feet dangling through the trap.

The chain attached to his leg dangled down the steps, and the natives, discovering this, promptly seized it.

Parts of her dress dangled upon the bushes, under which lay her bonnet, lapped by the rippling water.

The shop messengers, in their green swallow-tails with bright brass buttons, were waiting for customers with dangling hands.

Then my eyes fell on something that hung outside the window, dangling, as it seemed, from a fixed point above.

Without another word Tad sat down with his feet dangling over, then crawled cautiously down the steep wall.

A woman likes to keep a man dangling, likes to make him blow cold with fear and hot with anticipation.

At his waist dangled a heat pistol, and on his fat face there was a strange, wild sort of smirk.

You know she always wears it dangling from her neck, absurd as it is for a great girl of fifteen.

I darted across the road, a grotesque figure, naked, my bundle dangling by its strap from my shoulder.

The line is merely doubled, the ends made fast to a stout pole, and the loop dangled in the water.

Its little sleeves dangled over, and she caught one of them and squeezed it in a sort of soft ecstasy.

Each wore a bunch of turkey-feathers dangling from his head, and each had wrapped his naked body in a blanket.

He cried, dangling it before his eyes, but the man threw him fiercely off, and continued on his way.

Besides, our telegraph wires are dangling from the poles just as the English engineers left them on September 2.

My ladder, I knew, would now be dangling from my window, to show by which way I had escaped.

His legs dangled off the branch while he sprinkled water on his hand then patted it over his face.

Doe smiled grimly as he swung round his neck the cord that dangled two identity discs on his breast.

He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do with his time, and because they seem to like it.

A double eye-glass dangled at his waistcoat, and on his head he wore a very low-crowned hat with a broad rim.

Presently Giacomo came hurrying down the path toward her, dangling his white apron by its string as he ran.

It certainly created a terrible commotion, and strings of the ants, two feet long, hung dangling from the nest.

"That is not sitting," she said, and tried to curl herself up cross-legged; "I can't dangle down my legs."

Something sang to the right, and I found that part of a landing-wire was dangling helplessly from its socket.

Since no squirrel dangled from its jaws, it was evident that the fox had failed to catch its quarry.

And his ring at that very moment dangled beneath her dress on the same chain as her father's cross.

And then he dangled his legs, since for the time being there was nothing else for him to do.

Then, reaching down, he succeeded in grasping a dangling wire, and held up the end for the lieutenant's inspection.

He struck out down the logging road with his bundle dangling from the ax that lay across his shoulder.

Ella had got so far out of bed as to sit on the side, with her feet dangling over the edge.

I hate a man who goes dangling after a woman for her good; that's what he told you, I take it?

Her mother, with her bonnet strings dangling, was helping Lydia hastily to remove signs of the recent tea party.

A double eye-glass dangled at his waistcoat: and on his head he wore a very low-crowned hat with a broad brim.

He had also evidently lost his footing, for one leg was dangling, and the lad instinctively seized his shoulder.

He has dangled after Alice for three or four weeks, but I will make the fellow quite jealous in three minutes.

Just as Jim had said, the receiver was hanging off the hook, dangling at the end of its cord.

And every minute they pulled up their lines with a little silver object dangling and struggling on the hook.