hang together
Britishverb
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to be cohesive or united
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to be consistent
your statements don't quite hang together
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Stand united, stick together, as in We must all hang together and tell the same story . [c. 1400]
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Cohere, constitute a consistent whole. For example, The plot lines in that movie don't hang together . [Mid-1500s]
Example Sentences
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Seurat began work on seven canvases, four of which hang together here, along with a drawing and dazzling oil sketch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
If it doesn’t hang together like a traditional novel, that may be part of the point.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
Moreover, in air, the strands of the fan hang together like the bristles in a paintbrush.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024
Ferries and Ferguson's are two words that nowadays seem to hang together naturally but the many successful builds before Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa are rarely mentioned.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
Now let’s say I continue with “... such as when Benjamin Franklin said, ‘We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.’”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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