Sentence examples for hours of hanging from inspiring English sources

Their friend, Patrick M. Dorismond, a security guard for the business improvement district, had been fatally shot by a plainclothes police officer early yesterday, within two hours of hanging up his blue uniform and leaving his shift.

By the time some of them come back, which they do for only half a dozen pages anyway, as if for a curtain-call after hours of hanging around in the green room, only the most masochistic and memorious reader will remember whose feet were arthritic, who was a jeweller's widow, who had the animalistic expression.

And while language itself seems to buckle against the vagaries of online experience -- phrases like "I met.... .. and "I talked to.... .. are too easily confused with RL (real life) -- there is something of the schoolyard and the mall in the hours of hanging out that many teenagers, gay and straight, do on their computers each night.

In an alcove at the back, there's a U-shaped booth that's ideal for an hour of hanging out.

Over the final week there were four dress rehearsals, which meant 10-hour days of hanging around until showtime – 9.57pm – having countless cups of tea and bad sandwiches.

After an hour or so of hanging around, we started to get bored.

David Kassel, the owner of ILevel Art Placement + Installation, donated his services (normally, his company charges $280 a person for the first four hours of art hanging and arranging, and $70 a person for each additional hour).

You might even feel you could get more work done on a three-hour coach journey than on a one-hour flight bookended by various bits of hanging around.Does coach travel have any appeal to readers of this blog?

POSTLETHWAITE: "Any chance of hanging around for three hours or so?

Eventually, I got sick of hanging out at Kinkos for hours on end trying to use the fax machine so I gave up.

Eventually, after another half-hour of him hanging around the kitchen outside of her room, opening and closing drawers, he went to bed.