Sentence examples for but hanging around from inspiring English sources

But hanging around for hours in a plane is a waste of manpower".Mad as a kiteUnmanned flying machines go back a long way.

His career has gone through various false starts and stumbles, but hanging around with Denzel Washington may have made him a star at last.

Her teenage years were spent not scribbling in notebooks, but hanging around on street corners on an estate in Peckham, south London.

Morph was designed as an anarchic foil to artist Tony Hart's straight man, first appearing on the BBC in 1977, but hanging around for decades – in time for me to get hooked in the early 1990s.

We discovered that if you are UK residents, you are not allowed to just stay on the island the night before your appointment – but hanging around on the island for eight days while the licence is granted is fine.

Dyer's sixth book, "Out of Sheer Rage" (1997), established the characteristic voice of his recent work — a loitering investigation, somehow intense and slackerish, the author not quite pursuing his subject but hanging around it, like a clever aimless boy on a street corner.

Or, in the case of super-keen semi-finalist David – knocked out but still hanging around – not doing so.

Back in the spring of 1988, several students and I (already graduated but still hanging around) spent several evenings at John Felstiner's house, reading, translating, and discussing Celan poems.

Parker's oldest son was in public school but started hanging around the "wrong crowd," she said, so she decided to put him in the private school three years ago.

The trey-happy squad made just one of its first five against the Cavs, but was hanging around in large part because of a 6-3 edge in rebounding.

I normally play third on Centre Court during the early stages of Wimbledon, and I've had some great matches that have gone on into the evening, but sometimes hanging around and waiting can build nerves and pressure.