dangle
verb (used without object)
to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion.
have been dangling
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present perfect progressiveof dangle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Manager Scott Servais and general manager Jerry Dipoto have been dangling with expiring contracts all season.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
For 18 months the trustees of the University of Rochester have been dangling a rich prize before the eyes of U. S. educators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roosevelt supposed that the monkey must have been dangling from a tree branch, trying to take a drink of water from the river, when the catfish swam up and ate him.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
He was not sitting on the wall, for, if so, his legs would have been dangling over on the outside.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
"I might have been dangling from a branch of a tree at this moment, had I followed your plan, my good friend Brown, and that would have been particularly uncomfortable."
From Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Horatio Alger
