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dan·gling
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Princeton's WordNet
suspension, dangling, hangingnoun
the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
"there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"
Wiktionary
danglingnoun
the act of hanging something from above such that it can move freely; suspension
danglingadjective
suspended from above
Webster Dictionary
Dangling
of Dangle
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dangling in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dangling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of dangling in a Sentence
Some of them fired flares or used water canons to welcome us ... We even had a rescue helicopter, with one worker dangling above us.
Somehow Luke understood - in a way that Lando never had, that Hand and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped - just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because the goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling over the abyss.
He was just holding on by his grip and his feet were dangling over the water.
Virginia still penalizes dangling objects, but the police now must have another justification to first stop the vehicle, dangling object stops are a classic example of a pretextual stop, where the police are looking for a valid reason to stop a motorist for something else -- such as suspicion of DUI or maybe to try to search the vehicle.
First responders actually climbed up into the dangling cars to get people out.
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