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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

“Ay,” continued one of the runaway servants; “and if his neck had been a foot longer I should have been dangling in mid-air like the coffin of the false prophet.”

From Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore by Various