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Use hang-in in a sentence

Definition of hang in:

  • (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop;

Sentence Examples:

Queen Anne's life had for some time been hanging in the balance.

There was a clock hanging in one corner.

It used to hang in grandmother's room in the old house.

That remained only by seeming to hang in the void surrounding it.

He finished the portrait of Lafayette, and it now hangs in the City Hall in New York.

It hangs in the dining room and rather dominates our meals.

They were positive that a peasant was hanging in a barn not far away.

Early mission bells hang in the facade of the old building.

A fine picture to hang in the library: Brooks's Age of Irving.

He smiled, letting her hands swing back and hang inert at her sides.

I was about desperate to lose that much blunt, and be hanged into the bargain.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of the streets.

The skin of the throat was at present merely loose, it did not yet hang in bags.

In 1822 three men were still to be seen hanging in front of Dover Castle.

Having occasion to be absent for a month, he left them hanging in the factory.

Each foot seems to hang in the air before the drums bid us put it down.

I saw her evening and other dresses hanging in the half-open wardrobe opposite me.

He was the one who did the fine picture of my daughter that hangs in the parlor.

There would probably be a few corpses lying about or hanging in the wire.

Murmured Jinny to herself, her opinion of the Scots race hanging in the balance.

Lamps, opaque white globes, hanging in the thick air like dead moons.

When it is thick enough to hang in a drop from the point of a spoon, it is done.

And there was our machine hanging in the sky.

Little clouds hang in the still autumn sky.

I loaned them to you last, and they're hanging in your closet.

Diana let the question hang in the air for several moments while she looked at the panel.

Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colors.

If I am not mistaken there is one hanging in your own hall.

Some allowed them to hang in stiff rigidity by their sides.

The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and the pins thereof.

The keys are hanging in the men's bedroom.

They cannot see Cromwell's dead body hanging in chains.

Their captured women were hanged in cold blood some months later.

That point is the one on which the whole argument hangs in my mind.

The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and the pins thereof.

Pure as the lilies hanging in clusters above her head!

Six peasants were found hanging in an orchard.

The sun shone through the golden roses, hanging in clusters over the entrance.

"They were hanged in their habits," he went on.

And I brought it to London, and it hangs in my bedroom.

At one time we had fifteen hanging in the kitchen.

The ones that hang in cages outside the door.

He picked it out, for it was only hanging in the skin, and held it up for all to see.

She did not know what it all meant, nor why Bunny was hanging in such a queer way.

Beautiful it was, made of cloud, and hanging in the sky, as if it were built of red roses.

They hang in dense bunches from the roof.

There were old garments hanging in obscure places.

The frames are magnificent, and the pictures now hang in a row on the parlor wall.

False queues are to be seen hanging in the streets for sale.

It seemed to hang in air as if by a thread.

His story has long been hanging in my mind, and we may as well take it at once.

The fruit of the blue grape is sour and hangs in long, heavy clusters.

And one (more than one) hangs in the kitchen closet, and in the cellar, and in the attic.

It was the eve of Ascension Day, and a yellow May moon was hanging in the blue.

"The ball has torn away the middle of the member, and it hangs in pieces from the wound."

She was the youngest seamstress in the room, and wore her hair hanging in two long braids.

He rolled over and looked up, and there was the stick hanging in the air above him.

If I could have that to hang in my room, it would be like a flash of sunshine to look at.

It's in a dress bag, hanging in her closet.

This dress hangs in such a calm way that one can't be anything but classic in it.

Nothing of all that had been was left but a smoke cloud hanging in the breeze.

He was condemned to death and hanged in chains.

It was left to a certain extent "hanging in the air."

Blue tunic hanging in straight folds from neck to three or four inches above ankles.

Things stood at too desperate a pass with him that he should let things hang in the wind.

Previously she had found hanging in a closet a gown which she had seen her mother wear.

"Yes, the honor of the Wolf Patrol is hanging in the balance, Elmer," said Lil Artha.

I had the message, hanging inside my shirt.

Sir Robert Constable was hanged in chains before the gate of Hull.

They made mats of hay to lie on and a mat of the same material to hang in the doorway.

She had seen a man hanged in the middle of the day, just in front of her door.

I found it hanging in the wardrobe, left from last summer.

There he was, hanging in his cage in the darkest corner of the barn.

In the west there floated a cloud that seemed to hang in the sky like a great prism.

I had them hanged in front of my tent.

Hanging in another case were human skeletons of various sizes.

"The shield will hang in the lecture hall!"

She can hang in the window with Germania and sing for the bride.

Let them drain until dripping ceases and hang in place again.

He had returned by the front door, and his overcoat was now hanging in the lower hall.

Besides, the rooms are all dark, and a great many of the pictures hang in a bad light.

What to do with cigars seems clear; but my dresses hang in the dark.

The man's hair is long and hangs in strings.

May his life hang in doubt before him.

I have got a few first-rate hams still hanging in the cellar.

Like the Red Bat he spends the hours of daylight hanging in a tree.

You are like some heavy scent that hangs in clouds upon the air.

In 1507 a murderer was hanged in front of his victim's house.

Johnnie's hands, at that moment, were hanging in front of him, the fingers knotted.

My business is not to hang innocent people.

I'd been hanging in that rigging all day and most of the night before.

Objects hanging in the lounge were visibly returning to their normal positions.

Keep them in paper bags, which hang in a dry place.

And he had his great strong arm around me; the left was hanging in a sling.

Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour.

She was a good shot, but could she risk it with that little life hanging in the balance?

The men stood at ease, hands loosely clasped and hanging in front of them.

"There I hang in the wind," confessed Jack.

And Nan gave Patty a picture to hang in her own room.

The girl looked up and saw that the voice came from a bird hanging in a cage on the wall.