Sentence examples for hung slack from inspiring English sources

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She screamed at Mr. Peters until his arms hung slack at his sides.

Like a plucked elastic band, a fat worm sprang free, then hung slack from the bird's bill like spaghetti.

Their cheeks hung slack, their eyelids drooped, and their mouths sagged to the side as if perpetually reaching for a straw.

The others barked raucously as she ambled out of her cage into the noose of my leash, which hung slack as we shuffled past the monsters in the segregated pen — some, the workers say, are just born bad.

In so doing, you bid farewell to any traces of inhibition that hung slack around your soul and equipped yourself to join in the bracing new conversation on which society had embarked.

Watching the program, my jaw dropped early on and hung slack throughout.

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At such times, I lean my head back and let my jaw hang slack, which encourages expostulations like "ha-ha" and "ho ho".

These days, if an audience member speaks out of turn, he will usually respond not with a sharp glance but with an exaggerated eye roll, letting his mouth hang slack — the beloved grandfather momentarily regressing into a petulant adolescent.

Then my mouth would hang slack.

Your jaw should hang slack at most times.

She carried a goose, half-in, half-out of her shopping bag, its slack head hung sideways like a dream nobody can remember.

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