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Example sentences for "hanging down"

  • Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

  • Defn: Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

  • The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

  • Jungle trees of every description jutted out from the crevices of the rocks, their trunks and branches bearing an endless variety of beautiful creepers in brilliant blossom, hanging down in festoons to the very water's edge.

  • The men were dressed in waistcloths of blue cotton, hanging down behind, mostly bordered with red, blue, and white.

  • Just, however, as he was approaching, cuscus let go his hold, hanging down by his tail.

  • These shirts have half sleeves, and the seams are trimmed with tufts of human hair, or of horse-hair dyed of various colours, hanging down, and with porcupine quills sewn round their roots.

  • The forehead and upper part of the head have smooth hair from twelve to eighteen inches long, and that on the fore legs is equally long, hanging down to the middle of the shins.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also claimed; based economy; being interpreted; central power; eighteen hundred and sixty; eleven miles; foure dayes; going ashore; had something; hanging down; more worthy; must begin; not being; original composition; particular instances; premature explosion; right down; should first; social equality; still holds; this continent; usually four