hang uselessly
Frequency: 5.00.9 per million words
to hang without any function or purpose, often due to injury
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Examples (10)
- Her injured arm hung uselessly at her side.
- After the stroke, his left arm hung uselessly, devoid of feeling.
- The puppet's arm hung uselessly after its string snapped.
- A single, disconnected wire hung uselessly from the damaged ceiling panel.
- The broken gate hung uselessly on a single rusted hinge.
- His paralyzed leg just hung uselessly as the nurses helped him stand.
- The wilted rose hung uselessly on its stem, its petals drooping.
- He picked up the old phone, its receiver hanging uselessly by the cord.
- For weeks, his limb had hung uselessly in a cast, a dead weight.
- The scarecrow’s arm, ripped at the seam, hung uselessly in the wind.