hang together


verb(intr, adverb)
  1. to be cohesive or united

  2. to be consistent: your statements don't quite hang together

Words Nearby hang together

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How to use hang together in a sentence

  • The Alawis know they must hang together—or literally be hanged separately.

  • In both cases the three principles hang together, and form, in fact, only aspects of a single philosophy of life.

  • She still floats, and no doubt she will float, as long as two of her glorious old timbers hang together.

  • Braceway, he deduced from the article, was having his troubles making the Morley theory hang together.

    The Winning Clue | James Hay, Jr.
  • He said after signing the Declaration of Independence, "We must all hang together or we shall all hang separately."

    Revolutionary Reader | Sophie Lee Foster
  • Our psychological mind is a unity because its manifold is a system in which all parts hang together.

    Psychotherapy | Hugo Mnsterberg

Other Idioms and Phrases with hang together

hang together

Stand united, stick together, as in We must all hang together and tell the same story. [c. 1400]

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