Sentence examples for leave hanging from inspiring English sources

"leave hanging" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where something is unresolved, or where someone has not finished what they were doing. For example: "The unanswered questions left hanging in the air made the room tense and uncomfortable."

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The excoriating report does leave hanging a really big question.

And the snapshots of her marriage, told only in oblique references, leave hanging many intriguing questions.

I switch off the light and leave, hanging around outside for a few minutes more just in case the name of the boy emerges, but it doesn't.

George Stevens was the last to join up and the last to leave, hanging on to complete the two harsh documentaries on Nazi atrocities that were shown as key evidence at the Nuremberg trials.

On Monday's episode, the talking hair with lips called Redfoo – accompanied by Danni, Ronan, and the one the rest of the judges always leave hanging – managed to reduce their flock by one.

While these remain tantalizing questions -- which the authors Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal McCrary Anthony are content to leave hanging -- when it comes to Manny, the scheming, insecure, name-dropping Etro-clad gay black real estate broker from Alabama who is the novel's chief villain -- there is little doubt about who inspired the character.

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Other questions are left hanging.

One question is left hanging.

The women were left hanging.

There is another mystery left hanging.

"Now we're left hanging completely".

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