hang by
Frequency: 8.09.5 per million words
to be suspended by a specific point or part
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Examples (10)
- The monkey was hanging by its tail from a high branch.
- After the scandal, his political career was hanging by a thread.
- The mountaineer hung by his fingertips from the icy ledge.
- An old chandelier hangs by a single, rusty chain in the abandoned mansion.
- A bat hangs by its feet while it sleeps during the day.
- The marionette hung by its strings, waiting for the puppeteer to begin the show.
- The acrobat amazed the crowd as he hung by his knees from the trapeze.
- The broken picture frame hung by just one nail after the earthquake.
- She was rescued while hanging by a safety rope over the edge of the cliff.
- The swing hangs by two thick ropes from the old oak tree.