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Discover LudwigThe word "dangling" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in contexts when referring to something that is hanging, suspended, or unsupported, especially as a metaphor. For example: "The dangling hopes of a better future were slowly fading away."
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Back at the beginning of the show, across a floor whose size is accentuated by a geometric pattern of yellow, grey and black shapes that optically flip perspective as you look at them, a ventriloquist's dummy sits on a shelf, dangling his legs in the air.
If that means we have to be more market savvy, if we have to work harder at the data sets which will soon be dangling in our shop windows, then I am OK with that.
This is the latest instance of Washington dangling the Iranian menace to persist in its disastrous course in Iraq, starting with its illegal invasion of the country on false pretences.
Finally, pen dangling from his cramped and rheumatic fingers, Bech realises, with a sigh of satisfaction, that he has finally reached the logical end point of the blocked writer.
Arms outstretched, mouth wide open, his face locked in despair, the sculpture depicts a man dangling from a financial index in free fall.
That soon, the Do Not Disturb signs dangling from the winter sarcophaguses of the upper class will detach and greet the budding city anew.
A "female" helicopter/she-wolf feeds human figures blood from teats dangling from its undercarriage; a "male" bomb distributes death from its two heads and its grotesque armoury of proliferating penises; genderless victims are represented in the form of bloodied rib-bones with screaming faces.
Völler's head snapped to the right as he glared at his opponent, then rubbed his hand through his curls in an attempt to locate the offending phlegm, which could be seen dangling from the back of his head.
Just in time for the visit to Canberra next month of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their baby son, Prince George, experts have been dangling from a cherrypicker all week meticulously cleaning the bronze statue of the king who led Britain and Australia through the first world war.
Newcomers can amass hundreds of thousands of followers by posting photos of their dirty sneakers dangling off buildings Rooftopping, or 'buildering' as yet another variant is called, is nothing new.
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I have turned to publishing as a productive outlet, but I am filled with a frustration that no amount of crane-dangling will ever quell.
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