How to Use hang around in a Sentence

hang around

verb
  • Both numbers are elite and hang around the top of the league.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Cloudy skies hang around, with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s.
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In this case, though, Penn State didn’t just hang around.
    — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 29 Oct. 2022
  • And in the few places that do allow hunting, the pigs know not to hang around.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The clouds will probably hang around much of the night with a low around 44.
    — Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2025
  • As for the rest of the week, the mild temperatures will hang around.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022
  • When a sports team loses, its fans don’t hang around for the postgame show.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The clouds will be slow to clear late in the day and chilly conditions will hang around.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The ball hung around the rim for what seemed like an eternity.
    — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • And the things that aren’t done can hang around forever, right?
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The year may be new, but the old ESG debate is still hanging around.
    — Margret Trilli, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • It can be hung around the neck or clipped onto waistbands to blow cool air up the shirt.
    — Matthew Parker, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But as the dog days of summer linger, Covid is hanging around too.
    — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Plenty of clouds hang around, but very few showers reach the ground.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Serve over ice and fresh fruit in those punch glasses that have been hanging around since the '60s.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Couple of gold chains hanging around his neck, and a blonde on his arm.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • The Red Storm never trailed again but allowed the Friars to hang around.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • A lot of managers don’t get the chance to hang around for the turnaround after a rebuild.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2023
  • Some hang around your neck or clip onto your waist, and the price ranges from about $10 to $50 on Amazon.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • But don’t look for the college freshman to be hanging around the White House any time soon.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Foster yells at the rookies hanging around the crime scene.
    — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Trumbull hung around in the third quarter and Tunaise drove in for a layup with less than a minute left to cut the lead to 42-35.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
  • As winter comes to a close, the sun is starting to hang around in the sky for a bit longer with each passing day.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The keys to his apartment—on the ground floor, luckily, a city bus ride away—hung around her neck.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • These are not your normal guys that are just hanging around a school lot.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Serbia is hanging around despite a big run from the U.S. to start the third quarter.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2024
  • This is the ability to hang around over the battlefield.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Outside scenes meant hanging around in the tropical sun for hours, and toward the end of the project a lot of the crew fell ill.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • This latest collapse was the result of the Heat allowing a Bulls team missing a chunk of their rotation to hang around through the first three quarters.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Baez's producer Norbert Putnam had the idea to create a makeshift choir of the people hanging around the studio to sing the backing vocals.
    — Nate Rau, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025

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